Posted on 02/19/2008 1:21:27 PM PST by NormsRevenge
SAN DIEGO
A defense contractor has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for bribing former U.S. Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham with cash, meals, trips and other gifts in exchange for nearly $90 million in Pentagon work.
Brent Wilkes showed no emotion as U.S. District Judge Larry Burns delivered the sentence Tuesday in San Diego.
His only hope now is to bribe someone to watch his six 24/7.
And what is the sentence for U.S. Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham accepting bribes? A good scolding maybe and a slap on the wrist?
Cunningham got 8 years and is presently serving time.
Not enough for selling out our troops.
Not nearly enough.
Thanks. Lost track of his case.
But notice that the briber gets a more severe sentence than that of the person in a position of public trust.
Just the opposite of what I believe should be the case.
Great, only a million more corrupt people to go.
Time for some doofus to chime in with “If Cunningham was a Republican it would have mentioned it in the first sentence.”
The Democrats can't hurt me because I expect nothing from them (but some unspecified future term in some re-education camp). When members of the party I've invested money, faith and trust in are revealed to be degenerates, and common thieves, it is as I said, very painful.
I agree with the sentiment. I was shocked. He was a great pilot.
Therein lies his real punishment perhaps. He won't be remembered for that.
I agree, we need to pass a Constitutional Amendment that would require public officials that are convicted of taking a bribe to serve one year for every dollar of money they took.
William Jefferson would serve 90.000 years. Duke Cunningham would serve somewhere around a million years in prison.
I think he will a bit. Somehow that makes it a worse disgrace.
‘William Jefferson would serve 90.000 years. Duke Cunningham would serve somewhere around a million years in prison.”
William Jefferson will probably never be convicted. Neither will Boxer or any of the others. Its truly a shame that we aren’t policing Congress more closely.
If they did John McCain would be long gone from the US Senate for his attempt to shield Charles Keating from federal investigation after having accepted campaign contributions (bribes) from Lincoln Savings and Loan.
BUMP for locking up the bums!
I wonder how many years Mitchell Wade got.
Hopefully he didn’t get off scott-free, just for cooperating.
There’s a whole lot more recent than that—and a whole lot closer to this Wilkes/Wade fiasco, too.
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