Thursday, June 23, 2005
CunningScam just keeps asking to get bigger.
Josh Marshall points us to this bit in the middle of a story in the LA Times
A month after selling their Del Mar Heights home, Cunningham and his wife, Nancy, paid $2.5 million for an 8,000-square-foot home in exclusive Rancho Santa Fe owned by Douglas and Karen Powanda.We hope someone can dig up an appraisal on this house soon. Until then, just remember this.
Douglas Powanda is a former executive vice president at Peregrine Systems, a San Diego-based business-software company.
Peregrine was Cunningham's third-largest corporate contributor in 2004, giving $14,000 in individual and corporate donations. In late 2004, Powanda was among eight former Peregrine executives indicted by a federal grand jury in an alleged multibillion-dollar securities fraud; he awaits trial.
Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas), the House majority leader, refused on Tuesday to comment on whether Cunningham's house sale should be referred to the Ethics Committee. Cunningham has contributed $5,000 of his campaign funds to DeLay's legal defense fund as he fights controversies of his own.And Tom is intimately familiar with both honor and war.
"Duke Cunningham is an honorable man," DeLay told reporters. "He is a war hero. He was the first Top Gun."
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