Update: Prostitution alleged in Cunningham case

[RedEarth]

This article basically provides some additional background on the limo company owner, Christopher Baker...

Prostitution alleged in Cunningham case
Feds investigating claims that contractor provided call girls to congressman

By Jo Becker and Charles R. Babcock
The Washington Post
Updated: 1:05 a.m. ET April 29, 2006


Federal authorities are investigating allegations that a California defense contractor arranged for a Washington area limousine company to provide prostitutes to convicted former congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.) and possibly other lawmakers, sources familiar with the probe said yesterday.

In recent weeks, investigators have focused on possible dealings between Christopher D. Baker, president of Shirlington Limousine and Transportation Inc., and Brent R. Wilkes, a San Diego businessman who is under investigation for bribing Cunningham in return for millions of dollars in federal contracts, said one source, who requested anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.

Baker has a criminal record and has experienced financial difficulties, public records show. Last fall, his company was awarded a $21 million contract with the Department of Homeland Security to provide transportation, including limo service for senior officials. Baker and his lawyer declined to comment yesterday.

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Homeland Security spokesman Larry Orluskie said the department does not routinely conduct background checks on its contractors. Instead, it relies on a list the government keeps of vendors who have had serious problems with federal contracts, he said. In Shirlington Limousine's case, only the drivers were subject to criminal background checks, he said

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12521205/

[liberalnurse]

1. So what?

:shrug: No one else is going down from this trivial fact.

[Coventina]

2. Keeping my fingers crossed that JD Hayworth is in the mix.....

Do we have a praying smiley?

[AlCzervik]

3. How great would that be?

[Coventina]

4. Well, let's see.....

I think for me there would be a little champagne, a little dancing, and possibly even an orgasm (that I wouldn't have to pay for)!

Plus, I would get a new congressperson!

:woohoo:

[KittyWampus]

5. JD Hayworth is the one human being who literally makes me see red

when he's on the tube... I get this weird reaction. Just something about him has me thinking "Danger".

[MuseRider]

6. Me too.

I have always been creeped out by him. AND he is dumb as a box of rocks (at least he appears that way to me).

[Coventina]

7. He's a local tv sportscaster that implanted himself with Limbaugh DNA

Somehow he got elected.

:puke:

Yep, he's an idiot. Some group (I forget which) awards him "dumbest congressman" almost every year for the stupid things he says.

[MuseRider]

9. Somehow

meaning he was a sportscaster. When do we stop electing people because the like or are sports people or some other kind of celebrity? Mine was an olympic runner, BFD! He is a shitty congressman, does nothing except what Delay tells him to do and he keeps getting elected. I don't think he ever does anything but he keeps getting elected.

[catnhatnh]

8. How VERY republican.....

.....DHS checked the worker bees, but gave the head honcho a pass....

[KingFlorez]

10. This just gets better and better