Congressman "Duke" Cunningham Lives On DEFENSE CONTRACTORS YACHT!!!!!!!!!!

[Beetwasher]

Anyone who reads TPM probably has heard of this story, but it gets even BETTER!!!

Apparently this scumbag congressman "Duke" Cunningham (R-Scumbagville), sold his home to this Defense Contractor, Mitchell Wade, who bought it for WAAAAAY above it's value and then sold it for a $700K loss. IOW, he bribed "Duke" w/ 700k. "Duke" turned around and gave Wade's company tens of millions in defense contracts (he's on the House appropriations committee)!

Now it turns out good ol' "Duke" lives on a nice fancy yacht when he's in DC. Here's where it gets good! The yacht is OWNED BY Wade!!! That's right, the same Wade who is the defense contractor who bought "Duke's" home for 700k more than it was worth and to whom "Duke" is handing millions in contracts.

Oh, and get this; Mr. Wade named his yacht....are you ready?

"Duke Stir"!

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!

Link to story:

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/06/16/news/top_stories/2005-6-16-22-58.txt

Link to TPM:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/

[Jacobin]

1. We have the best democracy money can buy

Why do you hate our freedoms?

[burythehatchet]

2. Thoroughly enjoyable

Duke should be getting promoted soon.

[Tsiyu]

3. Must be nice

to have absolutely no conscience.

[cthrumatrix]

5. the eggs are "cracking"

[annabanana]

4. Duke should be IN stir...

right into the old hoosegow!

[KittyWampus]

6. Eisenhower Originally Dubbed It The Military-Congressional Industrial

Complex.

Read that from a historian somewheres.

[kentuck]

7. Where there's fire, there smoke...

This is so obvious! Where is the investigation? Oh, but he is a former POW??

[texastoast]

8. Ooopsie, the NC Times story is "gone"

I'm thinking the Duke got to our independent media.

"You have followed a link to a page that no longer exists on the server."

[Beetwasher]

9. Hmmm, Try This

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/06/16/news/top_stories/2005-6-16-22-58.txt

The links still works from the TPM website.

[knight_of_the_star]

10. I get that paper

It was front page, BIG type. So what if it's off the net, it ain't going away!

[Beetwasher]

11. LOL! SWEEEEEEEEEEET!

Are you in his district?

Either this guy is a total idiot or I don't know what. I mean, to be so blatantly obvious about it...