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Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R - CA) a former top gun ace resigned recently and pleaded guilty to commit bribery, mail and wire fraud and tax evasion. He also pleaded guilty to a separate tax evasion violation for failing to disclose income in 2004.
Inciting Howard Dean's call for Democrats to now refer to the Republican party as a culture of corruption in a written statement, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, said the case "is just the latest example of the culture of corruption that pervades the Republican-controlled Congress, which ignores the needs of the American people to serve wealthy special interests and their cronies."
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/28/cunningham/
Inciting Howard Dean's call for Democrats to now refer to the Republican party as a culture of corruption in a written statement, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, said the case "is just the latest example of the culture of corruption that pervades the Republican-controlled Congress, which ignores the needs of the American people to serve wealthy special interests and their cronies."
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/28/cunningham/