SENTENCING COMIN' UP FOR FIRST CONVICTED REPUBLICROOK OF 2006

The SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE has all the details but basically, the Feds are asking the judge for 10 years and Cunningham, who admitted he accepted millions of dollars in bribes, is begging for only 6 years.
“'Cunningham used his status as a war hero to get into Congress, and then he used his congressional office to get rich,'” prosecutors wrote in the 35-page memorandum. “'For the better part of a decade, Cunningham, in effect, erected a "for sale" sign upon our nation's capital.'” Besides the 10 years, prosecutors also asked the judge to order Cunningham to pay over a million and a half dollars in taxes on his ill-gotten booty. Still no word on how the investigations are going of the other Republican Congresscritters who were in on it with Cunningham, particularly his partners in crime, Jerry Lewis and Duncan Hunter.


SUNDAY MORNING UPDATE: UNADULTERATED SCANDAL

The 35 pages of documentation-- the Prosecutors' Sentencing Recommendations for Cunningham-- are pretty startling, even for someone who has been following the story for 9 months that way we have at DWT! This is why the Democrats are calling it a "culture of corruption" and this is why a reform-minded Democrat is going to win what was a pretty safe red Southern California district in April's Special Election.