Four from Washington yacht club subpoenaed in Cunningham probe

[Ernesto]

SAN DIEGO (AP) - Two members and two employees of a Washington, D.C., yacht club where Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham lived aboard a defense contractor's boat have been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury in San Diego investigating the congressman, according to a person with knowledge of the plans

http://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/story/13224878p-14067590c.html

[stevedeshazer]

1. So many grand juries

I can't keep track! :crazy:

[Ernesto]

4. As Howard Dean said of the repukes.............

The "culture of corruption".

[maddezmom]

2. and next should be an investigation into the Pentagon's current contracts

with MZM Inc.

[maddezmom]

3. interesting...no records yet produced by Cunningham & boat has moved

The congressman has said that instead of rent, he has paid at least $13,000 to cover dock fees and other expenses at the club since April 2004. Cunningham has yet to make good on his promise last month to divulge additional records on the boat payments. Living on Wade's boat for free would violate congressional ethics rules.

Cunningham's attorney, Lee Blalack, did not immediately return a call seeking comment and neither did a spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney Carol Lam in San Diego.

The yacht, which had been docked at the Capital Yacht Club, left its moorings Wednesday and was moving out of state, said a person with knowledge of the Duke Stir and who also spoke on condition of anonymity. That person said Wade had decided to sell the boat since Cunningham was no longer aboard, members of the private club had complained about the unwanted attention the Duke Stir was drawing and Wade needed to preserve assets.

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/12125081.htm

[maddezmom]

5. it's on yahoo now

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050714/ap_on_go_co/congressman_s_house_1

[AlCzervik]

6. The name of the boat--"Duke Stir"