San Diego Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham has pled guilty to federal income tax evasion and conspiracy charges, and declared it would be inconvenient to continue to sit in Congress as he is measured for his new stripy suit. Cunningham's resignation comes in the wake of a veritable boat-wake of embarrassing revelations about the tough-talkin' former Top Gun pilot's exceedingly advantageous dealings with San Diego area defense contractor Mitchell Wade--who then, by some staggering coincidence, found his client companies penciled into bills Cunningham steered through the House appropriations committee. Most famously, Cunnigham sold his former Del Mar home to Wade at a vastly inflated price, who never moved in, and sold the joint at a $700,000 loss a few months later. But stroll down memory lane with the San Diego Union-Tribune, which recounts the other forms of unsubtle monetary persusasion that Wade placed at Cunningham's disposal:
Duke Overboard
Duke Overboard
Duke Overboard
San Diego Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham has pled guilty to federal income tax evasion and conspiracy charges, and declared it would be inconvenient to continue to sit in Congress as he is measured for his new stripy suit. Cunningham's resignation comes in the wake of a veritable boat-wake of embarrassing revelations about the tough-talkin' former Top Gun pilot's exceedingly advantageous dealings with San Diego area defense contractor Mitchell Wade--who then, by some staggering coincidence, found his client companies penciled into bills Cunningham steered through the House appropriations committee. Most famously, Cunnigham sold his former Del Mar home to Wade at a vastly inflated price, who never moved in, and sold the joint at a $700,000 loss a few months later. But stroll down memory lane with the San Diego Union-Tribune, which recounts the other forms of unsubtle monetary persusasion that Wade placed at Cunningham's disposal: