A question to consider. Duke Cunningham is in the federal prison system. Last I heard he was in a federal processing center in Oklahoma. Mitch Wade has pled to various felonies and is awaiting sentencing. There are three other Cunningham conspirators listed in Duke’s plea — Brent Wilkes, Tommy Kontogiannis and Kontogiannia’s nephew.
Now, normally, when indictments take a long time to come down, I figure it’s just that the prosecutors don’t feel they’re in a hurry and are taking their time to put together the most rock-solid case they can.
But maybe not.
What’s the state of the Wilkes investigation? And what about Kontogiannis? He’s a major NY real estate developer tied to one of the biggest congressional bribery scandals ever. Have you seen any follow-up reporting on that investigation? Anything in the Times or the Daily News? Is there even really an investigation?
I really don’t quite understand who Kontogiannis is in all this or just what his role was, though his background looks fairly spooky. But Wilkes is the real player at the heart of this scandal, not Wade.
There are real reasons to be suspicious that the CIA is applying pressure to limit the scope of this investigation or knock it down altogether.
A new foundation: The Military Religious Freedom Foundation. It’ll be a watchdog group to protect and defend the separation of the church and state within the US armed forces.
Cunningham felon Mitch Wade’s ties to DOD domestic spying programs.
Yesterday we mentioned how CREW brought an IRS complaint against Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform. Here’s a bit more from Paul Kiel on Norquist’s money-laundering tax, at least the one he charged Abramoff for the service of making the gambling money spick and span so it could be passed on to Ralph Reed. Take a look. There’re some great email quotes.
“Grover kept another $ 25K!,” says an exasperated Abramoff at one point.
Ouch! Pew has the president at an anemically feeble 33%. How low can he go? Do I hear 28%? 29%?
And she’s in! Justin Rood’s got the run-down on Katherine Harris’ appearance on Hannity & Colmes.
Some thoughts from me on why I think impeachment is a bad idea.
Hilarious. GOP tries to coax Jessica Simpson into appearing at a party fundraiser, starts whining when she declines.