"Duke" headed for jail, still makes a $2K donation to NRCC.

[splat@14]

Must be trying to bribe somebody for a prime cell. they just never quit.
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As parting gift, Duke cut check to NRCC
By Jonathan Allen
Before former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R-Calif.) headed to prison, he prepared a small parting gift intended to help his colleagues in the upcoming election: a $2,000 check from his expiring campaign committee to the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC).

That relatively small gesture, made Dec. 13 according to Cunningham’s campaign records, followed on the heels of an Oct. 24 donation of $11,684 to the NRCC. It also came about two weeks after he admitted to taking $2.4 million in bribes to direct government business to certain defense contractors.

NRCC spokesman Carl Forti said yesterday that the party never received the $2,000 check and that it has “no plans” to return the nearly $12,000 it accepted before Cunningham’s Nov. 28 guilty plea.

“I mailed it to them,” said Cunningham’s campaign treasurer, Kenneth Batson. “If it hasn’t cleared, I’ll stop payment and send it again.”

Batson said he hopes to close Cunningham’s account this quarter, which ends Friday.

Whether or not the last injection of money made it to the NRCC, the donation shows that a lawmaker can continue to influence elections even after a federal bribery conviction. And it’s perfectly legal.


http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/032806/news2.html

[MadMaddie]

1. Jack Booted Thugs until the end.....they have no self respect

do they!!

[lonestarnot]

6. I don't give a flying fuck about what they think of themselves,

it's my country that I worry about.

[Faygo Kid]

2. A true Republican. Crooked to the end.

[Hubert Flottz]

3. All those tears were as Bogus as George Bush!

He was really sorry about getting caught was why he was crying! Wimpy bastid!

[EST]

7. !!

Looking at spending what may well be the rest of your life in prison must be pretty daunting, especially when you're used to slapping others around, even for a self-avowed crook.

[Hubert Flottz]

8. They ought to have given him hard labor in Abu Ghraib!

He was cheating the soldiers!

[splat@14]

9. And he was a soldier, Viet nam vet. Doesn't make one wonderful but

should make one think before selling out troops in harms way.

[Hubert Flottz]

10. He helped the wrong people win the contracts.

We want our troops to have the VERY BEST gear our money can buy, guys like him want the money and don't worry about our soldiers getting killed, or wounded, because of shoddy substandard junk, like the bullet proof vests, that weren't bullet proof afterall. WE, the taxpayers, paid for the best gear on the market and this man rigged it so the GI's got junk. Then the GOP raves and rants about how THEY SUPPORT THE TROOPS. Most of the GOPers in Washington, knew all along that the troops were getting the short end of the stick, but they took some of the loot too and went along with the rip-off.

[Hubert Flottz]

11. Colin Powell was a soldier too and he helped instigate the phony

war in Iraq when he KNOWINGLY went to the UN and lied like a Bush!

[splat@14]

12. Good point. Forgot all about that lie!

[EST]

4. It never occurs to these vile bastards that cleaning up a

trifle of the damage they and their equally criminal benefactors have done to society might be appropriate.

[sutz12]

5. He stole $2 mill, gave $13k to the Repugs....

there's some return on investment. :sarcasm:

[CanonRay]

13. Can everyone say "Pardon"!