Contractor in scandal to learn fate soon

[Judi Lynn]

Source: San Diego Union-Tribune

Contractor in scandal to learn fate soon
Wade cooperated in Cunningham probe
By Greg Moran
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

December 14, 2008

FEDERAL COURT – For almost four years, Mitchell Wade showered gifts and bribes on former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham, a spree of criminality that earned his company a fortune in government contracts.
His bribes were lavish. He bought antiques and furnishings for Cunningham, a boat, a Rolls-Royce, and wildly overpaid for the congressman's Del Mar home.

But when the scheme was exposed, Wade turned his attention elsewhere – to federal prosecutors investigating Cunningham, with whom he willingly cooperated for nearly three years.

Now, Wade's own day of reckoning has arrived. Those two sides of Wade will be balanced when he is sentenced tomorrow in federal court in Washington, D.C., where in February 2006 he pleaded guilty to bribery, election fraud and other charges.

Federal prosecutors are asking U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina to sentence Wade to four years in prison and slap a hefty fine on him.



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Mitchell Wade, on the right.

[stillcool]

1. Too bad the role of the defense industry.....

..in this money-laundering for the Republican party wasn't investigated. I guess that is too 'business as usual' or as Tom Delay would say making 'politics a crime'.