Through his seat on the House intelligence committee from 2001 through 2006, ex-Rep. Duke Cunningham (R-CA) was able to funnel between $70 and $80 million in taxpayer dollars to his favored contractors. And it didn’t matter that both Mitch Wade, who’s pled guilty to bribing Cunningham, and Brent Wilkes, who’s been indicted for bribing him, didn’t have much in the way of qualifications. That’s because Cunningham’s colleagues on the committee stayed mum as Cunningham funneled project after bogus project to them.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=180382