Congress: Follow the money (again)
Josh Marshall wonders: I'm really curious to see whether this story (noted below) about Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R) gets much pick up or not in the press.
From the plain facts of the matter, as reported by the San Diego Union-Tribune yesterday, it seems like there's a pretty strong case that this defense contractor, Mitchell Wade, gave a congressman a personal gift of almost three-quarters of a million dollars and hid it in the form of home sale. And this was a congressman who was in a position to -- and by his own account apparently did --help the contractor secure numerous defense and intelligence contracts valued in the tens of millions of dollars. -- Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: June 12, 2005 - June 18, 2005 Archives
The "noted below" is a link to an earlier post two items below this one. Read both. Josh has his tongue firmly planted in his cheek on the earlier one.