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 Dukes 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/

[gratuitous]

1. Sometimes the corruption is so naked

You have to figure that the media don't cover it because of FCC regulations.

[geckosfeet]

2. Why,, does this fail to shock me.

[seemunkee]

3. Because we suffer from outrage fatigue

[geckosfeet]

5. bingo

[Al-CIAda]

4. The stealing from the taxpayer needs to be pounded by the opposition.

You know the mantra the once disguised Corporatists use, 'ITS YOUR MONEY"!!!!

[blm]

6. Say goodnight, Irene. That is a headline you can't squirm out of

cuz the people can understand it....easily.

[Pepperbelly]

7. Look at this son of a bitch's political contributions!

http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=DC&last=Wade&first=Mitchell

Of course, we all knew it would look like that but the brazenness of these motherfuckers ... :grr: