"I've never even smoked a marijuana cigarette.''....said....?

[Gabi Hayes]

this is a good one.....anybody talked about it?

Majority Report was just discussing it




A defense contractor with ties to Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham took a $700,000 loss on the purchase of the congressman's Del Mar house while the congressman, a member of the influential defense appropriations subcommittee, was supporting the contractor's efforts to get tens of millions of dollars in contracts from the Pentagon.

Mitchell Wade bought the San Diego Republican's house for $1,675,000 in November 2003 and put it back on the market almost immediately for roughly the same price. But the Del Mar house languished unsold and vacant for 261 days before selling for $975,000.

Meanwhile, Cunningham used the proceeds of the $1,675,000 sale to buy a $2.55 million house in Rancho Santa Fe. And Wade, who had been suffering through a flat period in winning Pentagon contracts, was on a tear – reeling in tens of millions of dollars in defense and intelligence-related contracts.

In an interview Wednesday, Cunningham conceded that the circumstances surrounding the transaction could raise "fair" questions, but he insisted that the real estate deal was legitimate and independent of his efforts to help Wade win contracts.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20050612-9999-1n12windfall.html

[Gabi Hayes]

1. no interest at all in this? It can't have been talked to death

haven't seen anything about it here

[annabanana]

2. Maybe people have corruption fatigue....

This kind of crap is pretty much SOP for this crowd..

[Gabi Hayes]

3. this one is really over the top, though

as Sam Seder said, the Duke can be expecting a knock on his door any day now

[AtTheEndOfTheDay]

4. Outrage exhaustion.

Every which way you turn. After awhile you just say "there's another" and shrug. Who's going to be accountable for anything when Justice is a mockery.

[Kingshakabobo]

5. Unbelievable (not really).

Carlton Sheets would be envious.

I would be curious to see how 4 or 5 licensed appraisers value the property at the time of sale.

What's the most we can hope for here? A slap on the wrist? Unless one of these knuckle-heads confesses, it only looks like another shady republican deal. Plausible deny-ability rears its ugly head.