Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Who Wrote Checks for ARMPAC?

A new blog has caught my attention. The Tex Parte Blog makes observations on the Lone Star State's legal community. Today, Tex Parte Blog reports on a curious lawsuit:

Houston attorney Corwin L. Teltschik, who served as treasurer of former U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay’s Americans for a Republican Majority Political Action Committee, has sued a Washington, D.C.-based firm that represented ARMPAC. Teltschik alleges in his complaint in Teltschik v. Williams & Jensen, et al., filed on Aug. 6 in U.S. District Court in Galveston, that the firm, acting without his knowledge or consent, conceded in filings with the Federal Election Commission that Teltschik, in his capacity as ARMPAC’s treasurer, “had violated various federal election laws – some of which laws are felonies.” According to the complaint, Christine DeLay, wife of the former congressman, asked Teltschik to serve as ARMPAC’s treasurer in 1995. But Teltschik alleges that he never had authority to sign checks for ARMPAC. . . .


I'm not a lawyer and I have no position on the merits of this case. But I'm sure that it will soon be relevant who *did* have the authority to sign checks for ARMPAC.

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