WASHINGTON, June 12 (COPLEY NEWS SERVICE)
Lawmaker's home sale questioned: 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.
WASHINGTON, June 15 (COPLEY NEWS SERVICE)
Cunningham's Realtor a longtime contributor:
A Realtor who Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham said had set a fair and
independent price for the controversial November 2003 sale of his
Del Mar home to a defense contractor was a longtime contributor to
the Rancho Santa Fe Republican.
WASHINGTON, June 22 (COPLEY NEWS SERVICE)
Workers say MZM founder pressed them to give to PAC:
Mitchell Wade, founder of the defense contracting firm MZM Inc.,
pressured employees to donate to a political fund that benefited
Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham and other members of Congress,
according to three former employees of the company.
WASHINGTON, June 25 (COPLEY NEWS SERVICE)
Bulk of MZM work came in controversial process:
The vast majority of government work done by MZM Inc., a defense
contractor with ties to Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, came through a
streamlined but controversial procurement process called a
blanket-purchase agreement.
CITY ISLAND, N.Y., July 5 (COPLEY NEWS
SERVICE)
Boat sale by 'Duke' made him $400,000:
Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham made roughly a $400,000 profit by
selling the boat he lived aboard in the nation's capital from 1997
to 2002 to a businessman convicted in a bid-rigging scheme. The man
said he subsequently got advice from Cunningham about how to pursue
a presidential pardon from the Bush administration.
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 5 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Politicians' private-jet use raises questions:
San Diego's Group W Transportation is a private air carrier so small
that until recently its entire fleet consisted of a one-16th
ownership stake in a Lear jet.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (COPLEY NEWS
SERVICE)
Lawmaker contacted contractor early on:
Shortly after House Speaker Dennis Hastert selected Rep. Randy
"Duke" Cunningham to serve on the House intelligence committee in
2001, the Rancho Santa Fe Republican sent a letter to Poway defense
contractor Brent Wilkes.
Dec. 4 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Contractor 'knew how to grease the wheels':
In government documents, he is referred to as "co-conspirator
No. 1": a man who gave more than $630,000 in cash and favors to
former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham for help in landing millions of
dollars in federal contracts.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (COPLEY NEWS
SERVICE)
A steady flow of financial influence:From
powerful positions on the House Appropriations Committee, California
Rep. Jerry Lewis has greenlighted hundreds of millions of dollars in
federal projects for clients of one of his closest friends, lobbyist
and former state Congressman Bill Lowery.
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