Investigator: Duke Scandal is Big

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This thing is huge — that’s the word from Rick Gwin, the Pentagon’s top investigator into the massive fraud perpetrated by former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham and his unindicted co-conspirators. He spoke with the North County Times yesterday:

“This is much bigger and wider than just Randy ‘Duke’ Cunningham,” he said. “All that has just not come out yet, but it won’t be much longer and then you will know just how widespread this is.”

He also complained that Duke — now serving an eight-year-and-ten-month prison term — isn’t helping like he should:

“In my opinion, he has not been cooperative and I have not gotten any information from him to further develop other targets,” Gwin said in a telephone interview from his office in Mission Viejo. I was hoping that from a jail cell, he might become more cooperative, but we just don’t have the cooperation that I think we should have.”

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