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Corruption and lava lamps: The saga of Randy ‘Duke’ Cunningham
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Jan 22, 2021 08:56am |
| Category | Commentary |
| News Date | Jan 22, 2021 04:00am |
| Description | Randy “Duke” Cunningham wasn’t just the most corrupt member of Congress ever when he was convicted in 2005. He also was one of the more colorful Capitol Hill criminals — in a most sad and tawdry way.
The breadth of his bribe-taking was stunning and his high-life antics were gauche.
The former Top Gun fighter ace at times appeared like an aging playboy stuck in the 1970s on his party-pad boat at the Capital Yacht Club, and he had a habit of giving signed photographs of his old self in a Navy flight suit to total strangers.
Then-President Donald Trump’s 11th-hour pardon of the former congressman — announced early Wednesday morning along with more than 140 others — won’t change Cunningham’s history. He has admitted his crimes and already served the time.
It’s also a “conditional” pardon that leaves him on the hook for paying off the entire $3.6 million in restitution and forfeiture that were ordered as part of his sentence, according to Greg Moran of The San Diego Union-Tribune. |
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