Fixer-upper... LOL.
Posted on 10/06/2006 5:53:15 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
SAN DIEGO
The estranged wife of disgraced former congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham will be left destitute but won't face prosecution for her role in the bribery scandal that landed him in federal prison.
Under terms of a settlement deal filed Friday in San Diego federal court, Nancy Cunningham will be held liable for nearly $1.7 million in back taxes and penalties to the federal government but will not face criminal charges relating to her husband's activities. The federal government had filed civil claims against her last year.
"This was a compromise settlement," said her attorney, Douglas Brown.
Brown said Nancy Cunningham intends to file for divorce "very soon," but declined to give any details.
She and her husband have been separated since July 2005, when FBI agents raided their 7,628-square-foot home in ritzy Rancho Santa Fe, seizing rugs, furniture and jewelry.
Nancy Cunningham will receive a $760,000 credit for equity in the mansion, which the pair bought for $2.5 million in 2003 with help from defense contractors. The house was sold for $2.6 million to a newspaper heir last December, with all profits going to the government.
She will be responsible for paying the remainder of a $1.68 million tax liability for bribes her husband accepted but did not report on joint tax returns she signed.
"The reality is that although she didn't receive those bribes directly she certainly benefited from them," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Forge. "What this ends up meaning to her will be a life in debt."
Cunningham, a Republican who held seats on powerful House intelligence and appropriations committees, admitted last November that he accepted $2.4 million in bribes from defense contractors in exchange for government contracts and other favors.
The payoffs included more than $1 million to pay down a mortgage on the Rancho Santa Fe mansion.
In his plea deal, Cunningham agreed to forfeit the house, $1.8 million in cash, and a catalog of antique furnishings that fetched $94,625 at auction in March.
In an August interview with The New Republic, Nancy Cunningham dismissed many luxury items given to her husband as bribes including yachts, apartments and a used Rolls Royce as "not that great" and described their estate as "a fixer-upper."
Cunningham resigned from Congress last November and was sentenced in March to more than eight years in federal prison. He is currently housed at a federal correctional center in North Carolina.
Nancy Cunningham is currently living with her elderly mother in San Diego, according to another of her attorneys, James Macy.
She and her husband married in 1974 and have two daughters.
Cunningham gay? Hard to believe. Most gay guys I know stay at the gym until they're in better shape.
"The IRS is a criminal institution."
That's a different argument. The point here is this *Republican* POS brought disrepute on the Party by being a greedy bastard, and apparently influenced, or tried to influence, award of defense contracts.
I don't want a single 19-year-old seviceman going into a fight with crap gear because some greedy soft-butt congressman took a bribe. The DoD sometimes buys garbage anyway; we don't need to throw bribery into the polluted mix.
I'm not going to "prove it" (what would you want me to do, exactly????) but if you talk to people, I think you'll find out that's it's not exactly a secret in Washington. Cunningham is more than a little light in his prison-issue loafers.
Cry me a river....
When will Congress vote to take away Gerry Studd's pension?
was foley cunninghams page?
Therein lies the rub. It's harsh, but what can you say to that?
I can neither condemn her nor sympathize for her.
How about Rostenkoski's [spelling?].
While in prison he received something like $90,000 a year. He still receives it only it is more. Wonder what
the government did with all the chairs and glass ware etc. etc., they found in his basement
http://www.wonkette.com/politics/duke%20cunningham/
Duke Cunningham's wife "Nancy portrays the Duke-stir as an arrogant, homophobic egomaniac, a cross between The Great Santini and Ron Popeil:.."
(if anyone can find any factual information, anywhere, about Duke Cunningham being a "well-known homosexual", I'll eat my keyboard)
Fixer-upper... LOL.
Sad as MOH winner Duke Cunningham's tale may be....let's not complicate his woes with homo BS.
The guy is a hero who was corrupted by the politics of DC.
Sad stuff....at least he confessed and resigned...no need to penalize the spouse.
Nancy Cunningham, a longtime Encinitas Union School District administrator who holds a doctorate degree and earns $103,000 a year [Source]
When it comes to women, men are so freaking weak.
From reading about the whole affair, it sounds like he was more greedy and power-hungry than she was.
Of course, you never heard her complain. ;-)
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
I just don't buy it.
When hubby and I drive I-15 in San Diego, and look around at all the improvements to a very valuable freeway widening project here, we think...this is so sad that someone who did so much for his Country in the service, and then for San Diego's roadways...could be soooooo stupid, and be remembered for this (AND live his life out in jail). Sad and really dumb.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
ooooo K
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