The $525,000 payment on Duke Cunningham’s mortgage, the Sea-Doo Speedsters, the thousands of dollars of meals, the prostitutes, $12,000 worth of furniture… there’s an “innocent explanation” for all of this, Brent Wilkes’ lawyer Mark Geragos told a jury in his opening statement yesterday. Or as he put it himself: “Every single one of these transactions they’re alleging is a bribe has an innocent explanation they don’t want you to hear.” By our count, that would be at least a couple dozen innocent explanations. And, boy, do we want to hear.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=179659