CUNNINGHAM MOVES CLOSER TO PRISON SENTENCE. FEDERAL PROSECUTORS SAY HE DEMANDED AND RECEIVED A BRIBE

Republicrook and rightwing extremist Randy "Duke" Cunningham still hasn't resigned from Congress, although he announced he wouldn't run for re-election. Cunnigham is still sitting on the ultra-sensitive Defense Appropriations Sub-Committee and the Intelligence Committee, although it was his positions on these two committees that have brought him millions of dollars in bribes from defense contractors and others to whom he was able to peddle his influence. Tom DeLay's completely and seriously crooked Ethics Committee Chairman, "Doc" Hastings (R-WA) still hasn't opened an inquiry into Cunningham's unbelievably corrupt practices, although federal prosecutors seem to be on the verge on handcuffing him and dragging him off to jail. And Cunningham still isn't in prison but that is clearly coming. One must wonder if Bush will pardon Cunningham who was also selling presidential pardons to corrupt Republican donors for Bush ($400,000 a pop).

According to court documents filed yesterday by federal prosecutors, ol' "Duke" demanded and received a bribe from Mitchell Wade, owner of defense contractor MZM, Inc who seems to have funnelled millions of dollars Cunningham's way in return for an opportunity for the type of major war profiteering that better Americans were shot for in the not so distant past. The court papers filed in this case, the result of a grand jury investigation, is only the first of many probes into Cunningham's criminal corruption. It is clear Cunningham will soon be facing serious formal charges.