The Unauthorized Randy “Duke” Cunningham Page

Nancy Cunningham, Duke's wife, interviewed by "Kitty" Kelly in The New Republic, 8/26/2006 issue
http://www.tnr.com/user/nregi.mhtml?i=20060828&s=kelley082806
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Excerpts are at TPMmuckraker:
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001358.php

I noticed a minor error in the article. Kitty Kelly says:
"And then she stopped taking calls from prisoner 21489-038."
That's the number of Duke's son, Randall Todd. Duke's number is 94405-198

Father:
http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=IDSearch&needingMoreList=false&IDType=IRN&IDNumber=94405-198&x=397&y=296
Son:
http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=IDSearch&needingMoreList=false&IDType=IRN&IDNumber=21489-038&x=397&y=296

Interesting article. The man has been deranged for a long time. This is so very sad.

Re-reading the article, you know his conduct in Congress was similar to his conduct in the Navy as it relates to being ignored and passed over for leadership roles. I'm telling you, had he been a regular Naval Aviator and not a MiG ace, the Navy would have released him from active duty before he make LCDR. Cunningham has got to be bi-polar. Tha view is not an excuse for him, but it could be a reason for his life long conduct.

Yep, he certainly did not take much, a couple million, for the "services" that he performed. A more sophisticted thief, doing it for non-psychological reasons, would have cleaned up. Because it seems that he engineered, what, $600M or more in contracts? His $2.4M is way less than one-half of 1%. 10% would have been more understandable.

Also he was stupid in how he got it. He took checks made out to him and then deposited those checks at Union Bank? And then he did not pay taxes on the money ? How could he not know that the bank reports deposits over $10,000? The least that he could have done was to set up off shore numbered accounts and have the defense contractors depost into those. Then immediately break up the money and wire it to severl other numbered accounts in different jurisdictional countries several times, closing the accounts after the money had been moved.

And then not cleaning up the paper trail, the shopping list etc., just point to a not too well thought out crime.

I want to know how these companies expensed those checks. My account assures me that we do not have an expense catagory for "Bribes." So how do you catagorize a $125,000 check to a politician in an accounting system anyhow?

It was a strange crime.

Interesting commentary by Union-Trib columnist Logan Jenkins on the Kitty Kelly Interview:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/jenkins/20060824-9999-1mi24jenkins.html
(August 24, 2006)

Dan - It is very interesting to go back to the early 2000's comments on this site and read about the esteem people held for RDC and the disdain they had for this website. I would love to spend a happy hour with some of those "one thread wonders" who wrote what a savior Cunningham was and how extatic they were to have him represent the Republican causes in Washington, and to see if their opinion is the same 5 years later.

All this was pre-GWB. We all know what a wonderful job he is doing.

You were a head of your time.
Nice job!

To take a word from the right, "Ditto!" I recall Rushbo defending Cunningham when this all came out for a couple days. Then he went silent as a tomb on the subject of the "Knee Jerk Republican Jerk" Cunningham. Rushbo event mentioned this website. Way to go Dan! Outstanding 4.0 work!