Here’s the money grafs:
U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay turned himself in today at a Harris County sheriff's facility, where he was photographed, fingerprinted, taken before a judge and released on a $10,000 bond.
Accompanied by his lawyer, Dick DeGuerin, the former speaker of the house arrived shortly after noon at the county bonding office at 49 San Jacinto to surrender on state conspiracy and money laundering charges, said sheriff's Lt. John Martin.
He was free before 1 p.m., Martin said.
Although the indictment was issued in Travis County and DeLay's home county is Fort Bend, Martin said state law allows defendants to surrender in any county, and DeLay received no special treatment.
"Now Ronnie Earle has the mugshot he wanted,'' DeGuerin said, referring to the Travis County district attorney, a Democrat, who sought the indictments.
"I wanted to avoid the circus,'' DeGuerin added. "That's what Ronnie wanted. He wanted a perp walk, and we did not want to do it.''
No, Dick — that’s what a lot of us wanted! How dare you disappoint us. But, if we’re lucky, somebody will leak a surreptitious photo to The Smoking Gun.
Oh, well. We did get an official mugshot.
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