Wednesday, September 26, 2007
There is something about D Dock
Seth Hettena, writing in the New Yorker, reveals an interesting nexus of apparently disconnected corruption at the Capital Yacht Club.
There, across the Washington Channel from the Jefferson Memorial, is the Capital Yacht Club, where Craig lives on a forty-two-foot Bertram yacht called the Suz II, named for his wife, Suzanne, who stays back home in Idaho....Some people just aren't meant for a life at sea.
...Craig’s boat shares D Dock with the Cw S Way, a thirty-eight-foot Chris-Craft out of Valdez, Alaska. That boat’s owner is Senator Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican in the Senate. In July, federal agents raided Stevens’s home outside Anchorage; now the F.B.I. is investigating whether he took illegal gifts from an oil-field-services company. (Stevens denies any wrongdoing.) Craig sponsored Stevens for membership in the club, describing him, on the application, as an “experienced boater, great guy, and longtime friend.”
Another of Craig’s neighbors on D Dock was Randy (Duke) Cunningham, the California Republican congressman who is serving a prison sentence for accepting millions of dollars in bribes, including the hundred-and-forty-thousand-dollar cost of the Duke Stir, a forty-two-foot yacht. On board, Cunningham kept a document that prosecutors called the “bribe menu.” The Duke Stir’s previous owners, a gay couple, had named the vessel Buoy Toy, but Cunningham quickly changed it. “I bought the boat,” he once said, “not the life style.”
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