Friday, July 20, 2007
Dirty Randy Cunningscam spills his guts
And you can read all about it at SignOnSanDiego. It seems old Randy was a greedy demanding sort who would call up his partners in crime and demand money whenever he needed it.
The Rolls Royce that drew so much attention early in the investigation was not the only car that Cunningham made the contractors buy for him. In only two days in early 2002, the congressman bought a $43,000 Thunderbird and a $41,000 BMW from Bob Baker Ford in San Diego with $63,000 of his payment coming from bribes. That was three months before Wade gave him $10,000 toward the used Rolls Royce.Feeling guilty or forgot his Viagra? Not exactly your ideal public servant, we can only hope his testimony will put his cadre of corrupters in jail.
In mid-2004 when Cunningham needed to make repairs to his boat, he called Wade and demanded $6,500 cash. Wade took the money out of his petty cash, stuffed the cash into a bulging envelope and rushed it over to a Cunningham fundraiser at a Washington restaurant, giving it to a Cunningham staffer.
In his prison interviews with investigators, as summarized by the FBI, the former congressman is reported to have:
Insisted there were no prostitutes at Wilkes' Washington poker games, but said Wilkes hired prostitutes for him during a Hawaii vacation. Cunningham was miffed that Wilkes got the “younger and cuter” prostitute and said he was “somewhat embarrassed on this occasion because he had some difficulty in completing intercourse.” On the next night, Cunningham again had a prostitute but said he “did not have sex” with her “because he felt guilty about his behavior.”
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