Defense contractor: I paid $1 million in bribes (CNN/AP) {Cunningscam}

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WASHINGTON (AP) --
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Mitchell Wade pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiring with former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham to bribe the lawmaker with cash, cars and antiques, and to help him evade millions of dollars in tax liability.
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Wade, former president of defense contractor MZM Inc. in Washington, also acknowledged making nearly $80,000 in illegal campaign contributions in the names of MZM employees and their spouses to two other members of Congress, who were not identified. The lawmakers apparently were unaware the donations were illegal, according to court papers.

Prosecutors also laid out a second, separate conspiracy in which Wade was alleged to have paid bribes to a Defense Department official and other employees in return for their help in awarding contracts to his company. Wade pleaded guilty to this scheme as well. The Pentagon employees were not named in court filings.
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Wade is one of four coconspirators in the plea agreement and sentencing memorandum for Cunningham. The coconspirators are not named in court papers, but have been identified elsewhere.
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more at: http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/24/congressman.bribery.ap/index.html

SECOND conspiracy?? Who are these coconspirators?

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1. Second congressman?

One of the co-conspiring Congressmen is "Duke" Cunningham.

Does anybody know who the other one is?

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2. My guess is Virgil Goode - but easy to find out - one sec.

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4. Actually turns out its Virgil Goode and Katherine Harris

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/007745.php

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5. Katherine Harris, Florida's cruel stepmother? Woohoo!

Let's hope this tarbaby sticks for a long time.

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3. Well, as we all know, this will be a bipartisan scandal

And nobody will be guilty of anything, except Mitchell Wade and Congressman Cunningham (who has already resigned). It surely won't reach to anyone else, and certainly not to any Republican official, unless there is a Democratic official to be named as well. We must remain fair and balanced, even if the facts of the crime aren't.

Thus saith the "librul" media.