How Gingrich's Earmark Regime Led To Cunningham Corruption
January 27, 2012 | 4:56 PM
Randy "Duke" Cunningham was always Newt Gingrich's kind of congressman. The California Republican truly was grandiose -- grandiose in his ego, grandiose in his crudeness, grandiose in his bribe-taking, grandiose in his corruption. So it should not surprise the former speaker in the slightest that Cunningham, the most corrupt congressman ever caught, would reach out to Gingrich from inside his berth in a federal prison outside Tucson.
Cunningham is serving the longest sentence ever given any member of Congress, a 100-month term that should keep him incarcerated until June 2013. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy and tax evasion in 2005, resigning his San Diego County seat in Congress Dec. 6, 2005 after 15 years in office.
Cunningham is serving the longest sentence ever given any member of Congress, a 100-month term that should keep him incarcerated until June 2013. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy and tax evasion in 2005, resigning his San Diego County seat in Congress Dec. 6, 2005 after 15 years in office.
