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7/5 The Randy Cunningham story just keeps getting better. Turns out
a guy trying to get a request in to the white house for a pardon
bought Cunningham's old yacht (the one he lived on before moving
onto Mitchell Wade's yacht). Cunningham bought the yacht from
another congressman in '97 for $200k. He sold it to the pardon-
seeker for $600k, who put $100K in repairs into it, and was set
to sell it back to Cunningham until the shenanigans with Cunningham's
real estate deals came out in the press. This guy's filthy.
\_ Who the fuck is Randy Cunniingham and why should I care? -dans
\_ Who the fuck is Randy Cunniingham and why should I care?
\_ The guy who authored the flag protection amendment in the house,
sits on the appropriations committee and has taken what amounts
to very large bribes in a number of real estate deals.
\_ Any time negative info comes up about a politician, ask yourself, is
it something you would have brought up and spread about anyway
if you'd known about it (and been right to do so) or is it
irrelevant, and only being used to smear someone in connection with
an unrelated issue they're involved with? If it's the latter, you
are displaying an incredible paucity of political creativity and
good sense. -John
\_ Regardless of who the guy is, this is typical smear. His name
pops up in conjunction with some unrelated political stuff,
and out come the trolls digging up anything even remotely
compromising. Sad. Don't you have any good arguments
against his flag shit? -John
\_ Actually, I had no idea he sponsored any flag amendment.
I heard about the story because "corruption among pols"
is a newsworthy item. Also, because it deals with Cal.
real-estate. Originally the story broke that he sold his
SD house to the owner of some engineering firm for $1.6m.
The guy turns around next month and puts the house on the
market, and it doesn't sell until a year later for $900k.
Ha. In this market? Turns out, shortly after he purchased
the house, the engineering firm receives it's first multi-
million dollar gov't military contract in years. And it's
been rolling in gov't contracts ever since. -nivra
\_ It was something like 3 days later that the house was
back on the market. the FBI recently raided both MZM's
(the contractor involved) and Cunningham's offices and
home. It's a funny, sad, dirty story, and definitely
worth watching, John. Bringing up the flag burning
amendment was just a point of reference for the guy,
not any commentary on it. --scotsman
\_ Here's a helpful chart describing some of the
goodies so far:
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| csua.org/u/cm5 -> www.swingstateproject.com/2005/07/ca-50_randy_duk.php Josh M arshall spin the tale of Randy "Duke" Cunningham and the scandal that ke eps going and going and going -- with no end in sight. As usual, Marshal l has focused attention by asking all of the right questions while letti ng the story tell itself. Top Gun scandal: Cunningham's troubles may have extended this week to a company he owns, Top Gun Enterprises Inc. He started that company in 1987, primarily as a means of marketing a book he wrote about his experiences as a Navy fi ghter pilot during the Vietnam War. A Web site for the company sold the book and other items, including a $5 95 Buck knife that featured an imprint of Cunningham in his flight suit and what the site said was the Seal of Congress. Use of that seal on commercial products is prohibited without specific a pproval from Congress, which Cunningham does not appear to have secured . On Thursday, the Web site had removed the knife and all the products it had been offering and put up a note saying only that the site was un der construction. So I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest the California's 50th C ongressional District could be competitive in 2006. late st news on campaigns, elections, and politics in the states. Trackback Pings TrackBack URL for this entry: Comments You list Thomas T Kontogiannis's Score as unknown. However, we do known that he obtained a referral from The Duck to a Washington law firm from which he hoped to obtain a pardon or simply a Pardon Referral. Permalink Great chart, but where you have Kontogiannis writing Cunningham a $70K ch eck (column 2, "Mansion $"), TPM quoted the Post as saying Cunningham wr ote the check (ie the money --- in that small part --- flowed the othe r way). Permalink It was the best of boats, it was the worst of boats. It had a steel hull, its hull was made out of fibreglass. It was a flat bottomed riverboat, it wa s a cruiser with a 7ft draft. There is something very odd going on with the Kelley C Either Cunningham has simply lied to his constituents about the type of boat he was livin g on or something else happened. The rate at which the money seems to swirl around Mr Cunningham makes it very difficult to know who is paying for what. It would be very interesting to compare a picture of the boat bought from Callahan with the 98 pictures of the Kelley C Imagine that you own a $200K houseboat and want to accept a $400K bribe w ithout attracting attention. One way you could do that would be to switc h your boat with a much more expensive boat of about the same length. Th e chance of anyone noticing the switch is quite small. If someone does a ppear to take notice you sell the boat back for $600K aqnd cash out your $400K profit. |