AP reports:
WASHINGTON â An ex-employee at a defense contractor pleaded guilty Friday to making illegal donations to the campaign of Rep. Virgil Goode, R-Va., marking the latest chapter in a congressional bribery probe.
Richard Berglund, who formerly supervised the Martinsville, Va., office of MZM Inc., faces up to a year in prison for engaging in a scheme with company owner Mitchell Wade to reimburse MZM employees for campaign donations. The scheme violates the Federal Election Campaign Act.
In February, Wade pleaded guilty to bribing former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, in exchange for help in getting $150 million in Defense Department contracts.
