Posted on 11/28/2005 11:50:36 AM PST by standingfirm
SAN DIEGO Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy and tax charges involving the sale of his home two years ago to a defense contractor at an inflated price.
Admitting to a judge that he took bribes, Cunningham entered pleas in U.S. District Court to charges of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud and tax evasion for underreporting his income in 2004.
Cunningham, 63, and his wife, Nancy, used the proceeds from the $1,675,000 sale to defense contractor Mitchell Wade to buy a $2.55 million mansion in ritzy Rancho Santa Fe. Wade put the Del Mar house back on the market and sold it after nearly a year for $975,000 a loss of $700,000.
Cunningham answered "yes, Your Honor" when asked by U.S. District Judge Larry Burns if he had accepted bribes from someone in exchange for his performance of official duties.
Cunningham, an eight-term congressman, announced in July that he wouldn't seek re-election next year. The former Vietnam War flying ace is known on Capitol Hill for his interest in defense issues and his occasional temperamental outbursts.
He drew little notice outside his San Diego-area district before the San Diego Union-Tribune reported last June that he'd sold the home to Wade
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It is the Bush Administration's Justice Department that is prosecuting Congressman Cunningham. It is the Bush administratration's appointed Special Prosecutor who is prosecuting Scotter Libby and perhaps Carl Rove. It is the Bush administration's Justice Department that has assigned 45 investigators to go after Republican lobbyists Michael Scanlon and Jack Abramoff plus possibly Republican Congressmen Ney and DeLay.
It is the Bush administration's appointed head of the Securities Exchange Commission who is investigating Senator Bill Frist.
I am certain that if Congressional Democrats are currently involved in federal criminal acts, the Bush Administration's Justice Department will prosecute them with equal or even superior vigor. The media have no say over who is indicted, they can only cover the indictments and investigations.
I agree with everything you say. What does it have to do with what I posted?
"A sad day, he was a good man."
No, he was corrupt.
No, he is (and became)corrupt.
When he became an air ace, even shooting down three planes in a single day, in defense of our country, he was a good man (hero).
Shame that you missed the grade school lessons on verb tenses. Facts help too.
Why do liberals either seem to be unaware of or shy away from facts? You don't happen to be...no I guess not.
Contrast this with a president porking an intern in the white house, then NOT resigning...
Ah.. he "was a good man."
Sorry, my tense was off. So he became corrupt. Well, I really don't care if he was an air ace or Mother Teresa. He did something wrong, he admitted to it and he resigned.
As a public official that makes him corrupt and whether he is a RAT or Republican is irrelevant.
Randy was and is a great man! No matter what he did. Besides, he didn't really do anything. This was all set up as a liberal plot just to make him look bad. It was really the liberals who took the bribes and did the special favors. It was really the liberals that abused this position and stole from the taxpayers. Cunningham rocks and always will! The media and the liberals are making this all up just because they hate us because we won the last election and we're kicking there asses. The country is in great shape and Iraq is going beautifully but the liberals won't let you know that.
I hope Randy Cunningham comes back and kicks the liberals asses when he wins for Senate in a landslide!!!! Conservatives Rule!!! Liberals Suck!!!
"You seem to be happy to assume that he put people at risk with his actions, and you don't know ANYTHING about it!"
Being a former navy officer, I know about crimes against the nation and I'm not assuming anything pal. I asked a question, and instead of responding rationally, you lather out a sneering, take-your-football-go-home answer. You need to step outside of your unbelief and breathe some fresh air. You are obviously too close to this either personally, or emotionally. What did he do, sign your ballcap at an airshow when you were six years old? Grow up. There is a country to run.
before my time, but i do remember reading about it.
fake shiek offering money to democrats?
He only admitted mistakes after he was caught. He didn't have much choice.
Not me. Pols mostly care about getting reelected.
He only admitted it after he was blatantly caught, and he was going to lose in court. I don't see anything honest about that.
Bingo!
USC? When was that?
Dec 8, 1941: Randy "Duke" Cunningham is born in Los Angeles and grows up in Shelbina, Mo. 1964: B.A., University of Missouri.1965: M.A. in education, University of Missouri.
1966: Joins the U.S. Navy.
"USC? When was that?"
1962. He was thrown out of NROTC because someone paid him to take a test.
REEEEEEEEEEEELAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAX. Just a little comedic interjection to lighten the mood.
I was with him at USC in 1963, I haven`t a clue where this is from. I was at his commitioning into the Navy in the spring of 1964. His family lived in San Diego.
May be there is two of them
>>I haven`t a clue where this is from.
The link would take you to his biographical timeline, from the San Diego Union-Tribune. That information is consistent with his Congressional biography which says he went to the Univ of Missouri (no mention of USC).
http://cunningham.house.gov/Biography/
>>I was with him at USC in 1963... I was at his commitioning into the Navy in the spring of 1964. His family lived in San Diego... May be there is two of them
It would seem so. Perhaps you were with the other one.
But $100K seems a bit much to me, especially from a Saudi to a Democrat - holier than thou person who claims to be rooting for the little guy. It's almost like $100K from "cattle futures" for Hillary.
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