DeLay, Successor Blunt Swapped Donations

By JOHN SOLOMON and SHARON THEIMER
The Associated Press
Thursday, October 6, 2005; 7:48 AM

WASHINGTON -- Tom DeLay deliberately raised more money than he needed to throw parties at the 2000 presidential convention, then diverted some of the excess to longtime ally Roy Blunt through a series of donations that benefited both men's causes.

When the financial carousel stopped, DeLay's private charity, the consulting firm that employed DeLay's wife and the Missouri campaign of Blunt's son all ended up with money, according to campaign documents reviewed by The Associated Press.