They say bad news comes in threes…

…so Tom DeLay may be at the end of his grand jury troubles in Texas. Yet another grand jury, on it's very first day of deliberations, returned counts two and three against the Bugman...

One count of the new indictment accuses DeLay of conspiracy to commit money laundering. It says he agreed with one or more associates to launder $190,000 in corporate contributions through an arm of the Republican National Committee in Washington, allowing the funds to be passed illegally into the election campaigns of Republican candidates in Texas.

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The other new count alleges that DeLay and the two associates "did knowingly, conduct, supervise, and facilitate" the transfer of the $190,000 to Washington and back to Texas in violation of the state's money-laundering statutes.

The new money laundering charge, btw, carries the potential of life in prison. It's hard to imagine that being the actual outcome, but damn, it's fun to try…