The U.S. Attorney has issued the recommendations for sentencing in the case of one Randy "Duke" Cunningham as part of a plea agreement. The "reduced" sentence calls for
10 years in the slammer, plus the payment of
millions of dollars. This is the
reduced recommendation.
This guy is unreal. Those republicans just can't keep their hands off the money! Follow me on the flip to see some tasty excerpts from the memorandum.
Let's begin at the beginning:
That's right: 120 months. But he could have gotten a lot more, given the brazenness exemplified here:
Eating at a chinese restaurant will never be the same again.
And it wasn't just money and cars:
Some of the furniture may be of interest to the Home and Garden bloggers here:
That was only some of it!
For the guys here (cars are a guy thing, aren't they):
He apparently was somewhat cooperative:
Hmmm, a "confidential communication". I wonder who he sold down the river?
For the above (and a whole lot more, including obstruction of justice - see the whole thing at Josh Marshall's place here, the (now former) Congressman got:
Counln't have happened to a nicer guy :-)
This is going to be a great year. Next!