California: FBI investigates Cunningham's house sale
AP reports: Questions over Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham's home sale to a defense contractor spilled into his own district Friday as protesters beat drums and chanted slogans outside the congressman's $2.55 million mansion in America's wealthiest community.
"Two, four, six, eight, shame on Duke in Mansiongate," protesters chanted at the bottom of the palm-tree lined driveway that led to Cunningham's secluded home.
The eight-term Republican sold his previous home in Del Mar in 2003 to Mitchell Wade, president of the contracting firm MZM Inc., who took a $700,000 loss on it a year later. Around the same time, little-known MZM Inc., based in Washington, D.C., began getting large government contracts.
The San Diego Union Tribune, citing an unnamed Justice Department official, reported Friday that the FBI has opened a preliminary inquiry into the sale. -- AP Wire | 06/17/2005 | Anger over congressman's home sale spills into home district