GOP Corruption Exhibit No. 1: Price Lists For Bribes

[kurth]

From Cash to Yachts, Convicted Congressman Set Bribery Rates
Court Documents Show Randall 'Duke' Cunningham Set Bribery Rates
By BRIAN ROSS

Feb. 27, 2006 — - Prosecutors call it a corruption case with no parallel in the long history of the U.S. Congress. And it keeps getting worse. Convicted Rep. Randall "Duke" Cunningham actually priced the illegal services he provided. Prices came in the form of a "bribe menu" that detailed how much it would cost contractors to essentially order multimillion-dollar government contracts, according to documents submitted by federal prosecutors for Cunningham's sentencing hearing this Friday...

The sentencing memorandum includes the California Republican's "bribery menu" on one of his congressional note cards, "starkly framed" under the seal of the United States Congress. The card shows an escalating scale for bribes, starting at $140,000 and a luxury yacht for a $16 million Defense Department contract. Each additional $1 million in contract value required a $50,000 bribe. The rate dropped to $25,000 per additional million once the contract went above $20 million. At one point Cunningham was living on a yacht named after him, "The Dukester," docked near Capitol Hill, courtesy of a defense company president...

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=1667009&page=1

[Kansas Wyatt]

1. REPUBLICAN ROT

Has encouraged corruption and a Corporate Government that excludes 'We The People' in Washington.

Enough said?

[central scrutinizer]

2. Wow, this guy should be in the Guiness book under chutzpah

[FloridaPat]

3. Nice rate of return. I don't think I've ever heard anyone getting that

even from the stock market. And I bet the bribes are tax deductable.