The Unauthorized Randy “Duke” Cunningham Page

Capitol Cunningham Probe Widens
By Justin Rood - April 15, 2006, 11:03 PM

The House Armed Services Committee is expanding its probe into the work of former member Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-CA), who is now serving an eight-year sentence in federal prison on corruption charges, Copley News Service reports.

Committee chair Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), a former ally of Cunnigham's, ordered the panel's investigator to review all of the panel's documents from Cunningham's time in Congress, from 1991 to his departure in 2005. Initially, the probe was only for the years 2003 through 2005.

As Copley points out, it's nice but it's not enough. Cunningham appears to have done most of his dirty work not from the Armed Services panel but from the House Appropriations Committee. Yet inexplicably, Appropriations chair Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA) refuses to open any sort of investigation into the disgraced lawmaker's activities.

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Cunningham, Felon Met With Saudi Crown Prince
By Justin Rood - April 17, 2006, 1:06 PM

"Now a U.S. citizen, Kontogiannis is worth about $70 million, Copley reporter Joe Cantlupe tells us. He spent over $300,000 on Cunningham."

"What Kontogiannis, 59, got from the relationship with Cunningham remains unclear," Cantlupe writes, but notes that the businessman visited the White House twice with the Duke. And now we know they visited the Saudi crown prince together also. Was that it? He bought Cunningham — a well-positioned but hardly towering member of the U.S. House — to meet world leaders?"
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There is a lot more:

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