From TPM CAFE.com :
Time: Duke Wore a Wire
By Paul Kiel bio
From: Auction House
Can you feel the panic? A story has just gone up on Time's site reporting that Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Cal.) wore a wire while he was cooperating with prosecutors.
Jan 06, 2006 -- 03:03:39 PM EST
...sources tell TIME that ex-Rep. Cunningham wore a wire to help investigators gather evidence against others just before copping his own plea.
Sources familiar with the situation say Cunningham, a California Republican who pleaded guilty Nov. 28 to taking $2.4 million in bribes -- including a yacht, a Rolls Royce and a 19th Century Louis-Philippe commode -- from a defense contractor, wore a wire at some point during the short interval between the moment he began cooperating with the feds and the announcement of his guilty plea on Nov. 28.
Given the apparently limited time period that Duke was wired, this might not be quite the bombshell it seems. But who knows - there's ample speculation that Duke was just one cog in a corrupt defense appropriations machine. This might be just the thing to blow that open.
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1 comment:
This is definitely going to be a horrible midterm election for the Republicans.
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