House Majority Leader Tom DeLay was indicted Wednesday by a Texas grand jury on a charge of conspiring to violate political fundraising laws, making him the highest-ranking member of Congress ever to face criminal indictment and forcing him to temporarily step aside from his GOP post.
DeLay said he had done nothing wrong and denounced the Democratic prosecutor who pursued the case as a “partisan fanatic.” He said, “This is one of the weakest, most baseless indictments in American history. It’s a sham.”
