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Page 6 • Monday, February 22, 1999
DeLay business dealings
under scrutiny by lawyers
Protests brim
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep.
Tom DeLay of Texas, the Re
publican leader who led the dri
ve in the House to impeach
President Clinton for lying un
der oath, now finds himself at
the center of his own contro
versy over truthfulness.
The media spotlight that fo
cused on DeLay as he kept up a
steady stream of Clinton criti
cism has turned into a glare re
cently as reporters have probed
discrepancies between state
ments he made in a legal pro
ceeding and those on financial
disclosure forms he is required
to file as a member of Congress.
“Frankly, it’s my opinion he
lied to me under oath,’’ said
Gerald DeNisco, the Houston
lawyer who questioned DeLay
during a 1994 deposition in a
lawsuit filed against the repre
sentative by a business partner.
The former pest extermina
tor, who is viewed as the Re
publican most Democrats love
to hate now that Newt Gingrich
has exited the national stage,
accuses Democrats of orches
trating the barrage of critical
media coverage.
“I am the most investigated
man in America. They’re trying
to bring me down,” DeLay, the
No. 3 GOP-House leader, said
earlier this month.
The man who slammed
Clinton for verbal gymnastics in
dodging questions about Mon
ica Lewinsky — and who re
peatedly called on him to pro
vide the facts — is not rushing
to answer the volley of ques
tions directed at him.
“I’m the most
investigated
man in America.
They’re trying to
bring me down.”
— Rep. Tom DeLay
House majority whip
Generally loquacious, the
majority whip is brushing off
inquiries regarding a lawsuit
filed against him in 1994 by a
business partner who claimed
DeLay and a third partner were
trying to cut him out of the pest
control firm.
“We have answers to all of
that,” DeLay told a pair of Texas
reporters in a brief hallway en
counter earlier this month. “It
ain’t worth talking about.”
Aides have been equally
tight-lipped since the contro
versy, first reported by an alter
native Houston weekly in 1995
and resurrected last month by
The New Republic, flared.
“These stories are being for
warded by political enemies of
Tom DeLay and we choose not
to fight them out in the press,”
said spokesperson Michael
Scanlon.
The roots of DeLay’s current
troubles reach back to that 1994
deposition, taken 10 months
before he ascended into the
GOP leadership.
DeLay, a part-owner of Albo
Pest Control until 1997, testified
that he had not been an officer
of the company for two or three
years. But on congressional fi
nancial disclosure forms filed
for several years preceding the
deposition — and one filed
three months after — he listed
himself as chair of Albo’s board
of directors. He dropped the ti
tle on his 1995 report.
DeNisco, the lawyer, said he
believes DeLay was attempting
to limit financial liability by
denying he was a corporate of
ficer. DeLay later retreated
somewhat from his claim, say
ing he could not remember
when he had resigned.
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program
that traces
guns used
by juve
nile criminals in light of a
report that showed at least
half the guns were bought
illegally from licensed deal
ers.
The Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms re
leased an analysis Sunday
of its Youth Crime Gun In
terdiction Initiative. The
program traced 76,260 guns
used in crimes by 18- to 24-
year-olds in 27 cities over
the past three years.
President Clinton is ask
ing Congress in his new
budget proposal for money
to pay for expanding the
initiative to 10 more cities
across the country.
Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms found 51 percent
of the traced guns were pur
chased from licensed deal
ers by people acting as
“straw” intermediaries for
the real owners, and only
35 percent were stolen. The
remainder came from pri
vate sellers not required to
obtain identification or sub
ject their customers to
background checks.
In a statement, Clinton
said the figures go a long
way toward helping author
ities find and punish those
responsible for putting guns
in the hands of the young.
“With more police on
the streets and tougher gun
laws on the books, crime
has dropped to its lowest
level in a generation. But
we must do more,” Clinton
said. “Tracing crime guns to
their source, and putting
gun traffickers out of busi
ness for good, will make
our streets even safer.”
That 25 percent of the
guns moved quickly from
sale to recovery by police
indicates they were bought
legally, then resold, Trea
sury officials said. Semiau
tomatic pistols were the
most commonly recovered
weapon in each city, mak
ing up 52 percent of all
trace requests.
As a result of the traces,
397 people have been re
ferred to state and federal
courts over the past year for
prosecution as gun traffick
ers, the report said.
“We can’t stop them
from buying the guns, but
as soon as they turn those
guns over to felons, we can
prosecute that,” said ATF
director John Magaw.
The report identified five
types of semiautomatic pis
tols that move rapidly from
dealers to young offenders:
the Lorcin 9 mm, the .40-
caliber Smith & Wesson, the
Bryco 9 mm, the Hi-Point 9
mm and the .40-caliber
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It said 11.3 percent of the
offenders involved were un
der 17 years old, and 32
percent were between 18
and 24.
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