{"id":5137,"date":"2011-08-13T10:22:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T17:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/?p=5137"},"modified":"2011-08-13T11:00:25","modified_gmt":"2011-08-13T18:00:25","slug":"americas-most-corrupt-congressman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2011\/08\/13\/americas-most-corrupt-congressman\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;America&#8217;s Most Corrupt Congressman&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5146\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5146\" style=\"width: 175px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Duke_Cunningham.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Duke_Cunningham.jpg?resize=175%2C214\" alt=\"Randall Harold &quot;Duke&quot; Cunningham, America&#039;s most corrupt Congressman.\" title=\"Duke_Cunningham\" width=\"175\" height=\"214\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5146\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Randall Harold &quot;Duke&quot; Cunningham, America&#039;s most corrupt Congressman.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1><i>Duke Stir<\/i><\/h1>\n<h3>The Greed of San Diego North County&#8217;s Former U.S. 50th Congressional District Representative<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"reviewermag\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h5>Randy Duke Cunningham&#8217;s<br \/>\npersonal bribe menu<\/h5>\n<p>Below: scan of a document submitted as evidence by the prosecution and included in their February 2006 sentencing memorandum against Randy &#8220;Duke&#8221; Cunningham, penned by his own hand on his own Congressional office stationery for the benefit of &#8220;co-conspirator #2&#8221; (defense contractor Mitchell Wade). The left column lists millions of dollars of government contracts; the right column lists the thousands of dollars in bribes required to secure them. The figures in the right column are increases; e.g. $50,000 in bribes would mean the difference between $18 million and $19 million of awarded contracts. &#8220;BT&#8221; is an abbreviation for &#8220;Buoy Toy&#8221; \u2014 a 42 foot Carver yacht that Cunningham eventually purchased for $140,000 (noted as &#8220;140&#8221; to the right). The boat purchase was financed by Wade in exchange for $16 million in contracts. Cunningham renamed it the &#8220;Duke-stir.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham is currently incarcerated in the minimum security satellite camp at the U.S. Penitentiary at Tucson, Arizona. He was assigned federal inmate number 94405-198 and his scheduled release date is June 4, 2013<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/5\/56\/Duke_bribe_menu.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><i>[Image and text from Cunningham&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Duke_Cunningham\">Wikipedia listing<\/a>.]<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duke Stir The Greed of San Diego North County&#8217;s Former U.S. 50th Congressional District Representative Tweet Randy Duke Cunningham&#8217;s personal bribe menu Below: scan of a document submitted as evidence by the prosecution and included in their February 2006 sentencing memorandum against Randy &#8220;Duke&#8221; Cunningham, penned by his own hand on his own Congressional office stationery for the benefit of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[579],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflected-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":594,"url":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2006\/01\/15\/duke-cunningham-and-the-endurance-of-shame\/","url_meta":{"origin":5137,"position":0},"title":"Duke Cunningham, and the endurance of shame.","author":"admin","date":"January 15, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I just read a cover story about disgraced North County San Diego Congressman and former Miramar Top Gun instructor Randy \u201cDuke\u201d Congressman in the Union Tribune, my town\u2019s only major paper, which ended with a quote from one of his former military buddies. 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