Tom DeLay convicted of Money Laundering

What he did, funnelling corporate contributions to the RNC in exchange for a similar legitimate contribution from the RNC may have been illegal under Texas state law (although that is debatable), but it certainly was not "money laundering" as originally intended by Congress when they adopted that law.

So taking money from A to give to B by shifting it through C to hide that fact as moving money from A to B is illegal.
Seems like the very definition of money laundering in anyones book.
Do you have some alternate book with a very different definition?
It wasn't the taking of illegal donations that makes it money laundering Bilge rat, its the attempt at hiding the illegal donations to make them seem like legitimate donations that makes it money laundering.

So the next question should be, will the RNC be up in court for fascilitating criminal actions?