Saturday, February 18, 2006
Duke Cunningham didn't play ball.
And according to the WaPo, the prosecution is asking for the max when he is sentenced. Generally, the sentence requested following a guilty plea will be tailored to the level of cooperation from the guilty party. No cooperation, no break on the sentence.
Convicted former representative Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.) should be sentenced to the maximum 10 years in prison because of "unparalleled corruption" that included a "bribe menu" on congressional letterhead telling a defense contractor what payments were required for different levels of federal funding, federal prosecutors said in court papers yesterday.The filing also includes juicy details of how the Dukester did "bidness".
Cunningham pleaded guilty in November to bribery-related and tax-evasion charges of accepting $2.4 million from two contractors and two other men in return for steering defense work to them. The pre-sentencing memo filed by prosecutors in San Diego yesterday offered new details on the extent of his crimes and efforts he made to cover them up.
For instance, it said that Cunningham offered one of the contractors, identifiable in the court papers as Mitchell Wade, head of a Washington company called MZM Inc., $16 million in government contracts in return for the title to a boat Wade had just bought for $140,000. A copy of the notes is included in the filing, showing, the government said, that Cunningham charged an additional $50,000 for every $1 million more.Our tax dollars at work.
When the payments reached $340,000, the rate for each $1 million of federal funding dropped to $25,000, the document said.
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