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Originally Posted by raveneye
This is just utterly astonishing, unbelievable, unimaginable . . . . this has got to be the biggest and most ballsy, shameless payoff arrangment in the entire history of this country. Seriously, has there been anything comparable to this? Ever, by any political party? The total amount that he admitted funnelling was $163 million in just a period of two years, to just one defense contractor, who then gets a chunk of that money back to Cunningham in various ways, e.g. by buying his house at a ridiculously inflated price. I'm dumbfounded that Cunningham could have done this at this scale and gotten away with it for so long.
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Although I haven't done the research, in the defense world, I doubt that $163 million is anywhere near a record. For the record, I said months ago in the TFP forum that Cunningham was "guilty as hell." I guess the point I'm trying to make is that nothing shocks me anymore. Maybe that's why I'm for smaller government. The bigger it gets, the more abuses like these occur.
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It is detestable that somebody at this high a level of government could have conceived and carried out such a thing, but it should be deeply disturbing that it was even possible. It really makes you wonder how deep the corruption really goes in our government. I hope this story and those like it sends record numbers of voters to the polls next November
The balls this guy had . . . . . .
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Agreed, but he had a great deal more in the balls department than the brains department. Income of 1.2 million, and he only claims $120k on his tax return?