DeLay and The Duke: Together At Last
The prosecutions of Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) for money laundering and former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham for bribery have finally converged:
A Texas prosecutor has issued subpoenas for bank records and other information of a defense contractor involved in the bribery case of a California congressman as part of the investigation of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.
District Attorney Ronnie Earle issued subpoenas late Monday afternoon for California businessmen Brent Wilkes and Max Gelwix, records of Perfect Wave Technologies LLC, Wilkes Corp. and ADCS Inc. in connection with a contribution to a fundraising committee at the center of the investigation that led to DeLay’s indictment on money laundering charges.
Former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham resigned in late November after pleading guilty to taking $2.4 million in bribes to steer defense contracts to companies…
Wilkes, head of Wilkes Corp., is one of four unnamed coconspirators listed in Cunningham’s plea agreement.
Wilkes and DeLay had a very cozy relationship:
Wilkes’ company also hired Alexander Strategies, a consulting firm that employed DeLay’s wife Christine. His private jet company, Group W Transportation, provided flights to DeLay three times.
Small world. Very small.
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December 13th, 2005 at 5:10 pmCome on now.. sing along with me!! ‘Its begining to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere you go! …’
December 13th, 2005 at 5:17 pmFry, piggies.
/Snake
December 13th, 2005 at 5:19 pmTrying to buy the government , what a corruption this all is . First Delay then Frist , now this , not to mention Abramof and his florida stuff , this reminds me of the Sopranos .
December 13th, 2005 at 5:20 pmYeah, but..but…but…CLINTON HAD SEX WITH AN INTERN!
December 13th, 2005 at 5:21 pmAnd here I thought skunks were an independent minded animal. They must run in packs at night when we are all asleep.
December 13th, 2005 at 5:24 pmYup, sex with a fat broad was a bigger affront to our nation than out and out criminal behavior. And the republicans will defend these crooks until the cows come home. If it were democrats, however, who were perpetrating these crimes, republicans would be screaming foul.
December 13th, 2005 at 5:24 pmI was just reading about this. This year has not been kind to republicans.
December 13th, 2005 at 5:26 pm“Crying foul”, hell–if it were democrats committing these acts, the republicans would have them hanging by now.
Not to mention killing thousands of soldiers and tens of thousands of civilians in a war based on lies.
December 13th, 2005 at 5:26 pmdoes anyone else think that our illustrious attorney general may also be indicted for obstruction of justice, destroying evidence? he is named by so many of the players as having been involved. Gee, I remember John Mitchell getting nailed for something Abramoff is doing now, controlling the slush fund.
December 13th, 2005 at 5:28 pmand if you want to know what this bullshit is all about, take a look at the movie
“3 days of the Condor” shit for brains in our admin just don’t think people remember anything. good for us, bad for them
Your liberal character assassination will not play well in Peoria, or anywhere else where we still believe in values and honor our leaders with respect.
You lost, OK?
December 13th, 2005 at 5:29 pmNote to all - our kind hosts at TP have asked that we raise the discourse, site supporting facts and not just name call these slimly, immoral greedy son-of-bitch motherf’ing republicans anymore.
December 13th, 2005 at 5:29 pmAll in the family.
The corrupt, bribe accepting, money laundering, lying, justice obstructing, pre-emptive striking, non-reality based family.
December 13th, 2005 at 5:29 pmWhen this all washes out the Bushies will have less original members than Lynard Skynard .
December 13th, 2005 at 5:32 pm#11 — Not to be trite, but the emperor is naked. If you value hate, honor criminals, and respect murderers who take our country to an unjust war, then you’ve got the right president for you. The rest of us, however, do not.
December 13th, 2005 at 5:35 pm#11 Are you sure we lost?
What, Peoria is more accepting of cheating, lying, stealing and starting wars based on lies than the rest of the country?
December 13th, 2005 at 5:36 pmFred are you lost ?
December 13th, 2005 at 5:39 pmFred,
You won, and now we will all suffer the consequences because unfortunately your leaders do not share your ‘values and honor’ and, unless you are a member of their class, they certainly don’t respect you, or anyone else. The president acknowledges the deaths of 30,000 Iraqi citizens for the very first time in this 1,000 day war, and his next comment is a lame joke. There’s your respect, honor and values.
December 13th, 2005 at 5:40 pmSex with a fat broad. Yessirree, the wingnut, faux-moralist right still thinks the sexual “wrongdoings” of Bill Clinton are a bigger affront to the nation than the institutional corruption of the Republican Party, the looting of our treasury by war profiteers, the systematic transfer of wealth from working families to the Fortune 500 and their enablers on Wall Street and in the credit industry, and the declining quality of and access to health care.
Bill Clinton gave us eight years of peace, prosperity and prestige within the world community. The least this nation could have given his was a dozen horny interns in return for a job well done.
December 13th, 2005 at 5:40 pmHey, Fred Schlepper: leaders that lie about WMDs, turn their back on terrorists (after their Democratic predecessors spent eight years trying to stop them), foster a culture of corruption, and run this nation into debt and disrespect are not worthy of being honored with respect. For the record, I’m talking about your hero, George W. “Idiot Son” Bush.
December 13th, 2005 at 5:45 pmYour liberal character assassination will not play well in Peoria, or anywhere else where we still believe in values and honor our leaders with respect.
You lost, OK?
Comment by Fred Eper
LOL! Burlesque isn’t dead!
December 13th, 2005 at 5:47 pm#11, I live in Peoria and these “character assassination” attempts just confirm the vote of 2004. Peoria went for Kerry about 55-43 (give or take)
December 13th, 2005 at 5:49 pmSix degrees of… Satan?
December 13th, 2005 at 5:49 pmYour liberal character assassination will not play well in Peoria, or anywhere else where we still believe in values and honor our leaders with respect.
You lost, OK?
Comment by Fred Eper
Imagine fred the freeper ar the baggy-pants clown in the old music hall burlesque skits. He has a carnation in his lapel that squirts water on the bubble dancers more prominenet parts, and for goodness sake, let’s all try to be more conservative in our character assassination from now one, in deference to fred, since that hook is coming from stage left to jerk that windbag off the stage for having tired old material we have all heard before.
December 13th, 2005 at 5:52 pmwe still believe in values
By electing crooks?
and honor our leaders
Even when indicted? How about when convicted? Come on, some of the lemmings have to blink. Otherwise they would all go over the cliff.
December 13th, 2005 at 5:54 pmHey Fred,
Have you seen this?
Why I Am Not a Conservative
By Nobel laureate F. A. Hayek
In het Nederlands
And what are your thoughts on Karl Rove’s impending indictment?
I know, you are still convinced that the Wilsons will be indicted, but just in case that never happens, when are you going to blow your brains out?
December 13th, 2005 at 5:56 pmI’d like to know where the Ethics Committees are?
December 13th, 2005 at 5:57 pmAren’t they supposed to be policing themselves, equally?
Why has no one filed Ethics violations on these clowns?
I’d like to know where the Ethics Committees are?
December 13th, 2005 at 5:59 pmWeren’t they pretty much defanged about the time all this GOP corruption started floating to the surface?
Fred,
Your logic escapes me. Democrats lost so, what, we get corrupt, lying Republicans from now on? People earn respect. What the hell values are you honoring?
December 13th, 2005 at 5:59 pmI watched a rerun of Home Improvement and never caught this remark in the past by the character Randy…
Randy and his girlfriend were going to a Halloween party and when asked what they were going as Randy replied..
“We’re going as Republicans, the scariest people I know”.
That episode must have originally aired during BushCo 1.
I thought the attack on Republicans began in recent years. Guess the word Republican has been dirty for a couple of decades.
December 13th, 2005 at 6:03 pmHey # 18–Fred and his ilk don’t care about those 30,000 Iraqi civilians ‘cuz they’re brown and muslim and they hate our freedoms and all that. Of course, we’re trying to cram some kinda democracy onto them brown muslim freedom-hatin’ folk because we “care” but hey, you gotta break a few eggs ta make a omelet, eh?
It’d be different if Saddam had killed them, but since “our” war has killed them, then they can just be swept under the rug kinda quiet-like, OK?
December 13th, 2005 at 6:04 pmWilkes Wanker
The name “Group W” origin???
From the song by Arlo Guthrie, Alice’s Restaurant:
“Kid, I want
you to go and sit down on that bench that says Group W …. NOW kid!!”
“And I, I walked over to the, to the bench there, and there is, Group W’s
December 13th, 2005 at 6:06 pmwhere they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the army after
committing your special crime, and there was all kinds of mean nasty ugly looking people on the bench there. Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father
rapers!”
The cheerleader is definitely going to do a third term, at least 20 years in a federal prison.
December 13th, 2005 at 6:06 pmWhile rome burned, Nero fiddled.
December 13th, 2005 at 6:08 pmFred was the only “rightleaning” person to suggest that DeLay’s behavior was stellar.
Hmmm. Where are the usual suspects at?
Now we get to see if a Hammer sinks or swims. I’m taking bets he sinks like a rock. Fred, you want to cover?
December 13th, 2005 at 6:11 pmIn reference to Delay….This just in, every politician in Washington on both sides of the aisles have LEGALLY accepted perk, money, etc. Daschle’s wife was a lobbyist for Boeing when he was in the Senate, etc. etc.
When Delay gets off in January you’ll have to find a new avenue for your selective liberal ire.
December 13th, 2005 at 6:13 pm#36
December 13th, 2005 at 6:16 pmThere’s a big difference between accepting a campaign contribution (legal) and accepting a bribe (illegal).
36- Mark that time- the “everybody does it” defense rides to the resue.
December 13th, 2005 at 6:16 pmIn reference to Delay….This just in, every politician in Washington on both sides of the aisles have LEGALLY accepted perk, money, etc. Daschle’s wife was a lobbyist for Boeing when he was in the Senate, etc. etc.
When Delay gets off in January you’ll have to find a new avenue for your selective liberal ire.
Comment by Publius — December 13, 2005
He’s right, you know. It’s that damn “liberal bias” in the DOJ. They are a bunch of left wing extremists and white flag wavers over there.
December 13th, 2005 at 6:24 pmSorry, the everybody’s corrupt in washington arguement doesn’t cut it here. We aren’t a bunch of Democrats out to get the Republicans. We don’t like anybody that is corrupt. If a Democrat is investigated for corruption, string them up with all the Republican scumbags.
December 13th, 2005 at 6:27 pmSpudge - thanks for pointing out a key difference between them and us - we Dems resent our own party’s corrupt politicians as much as theirs.
December 13th, 2005 at 6:37 pm#36: “Liberal ire?” So in your world, everything that’s going on now is peachy-keen? Status quo for you, eh? Really? The unjust war, the economy, racism, poverty, dead troops flown home as baggage, lies, deceit, thievery, national debt skyrocketing, outing of CIA agents, indictments, hatred, pissing on the constitution, the environment, tax breaks for the top 2% of the wealthy, loss of integrity for the U.S. in the world, etc. etc. etc.? This is a last-ditch effort to save the United States from complete ruination. This isn’t an us-against-them proposition. It’s not liberal, it’s universal. Come to the party before it’s too late.
December 13th, 2005 at 6:37 pm#36 Pubus
Let me tell you one thing, even if Delay got off, the ex party of Lincoln has more targets for ire (and boot up thier ass) than there are Chinese in China.
However, Tom’s toast!
December 13th, 2005 at 6:39 pmSpudge, ChuckLA - I second that - anyone who’s corrupt deserves to be strung up.
December 13th, 2005 at 6:41 pm#40
December 13th, 2005 at 6:43 pmWell put!
Agreed, Spudge_Boy. That is exactly the point. Corruption is what encourages Dems to stay silent…and for Republicans to practice Enron style “business”.
Seems that some right wingers are way too myopic to recognize in themselves, the double standards they accuse liberals of practicing. Well, sorry, but your team is responsible for bad intelligence, bad judgement, plunging reputation, freewheeling torture and increasingly surreal deficit spending…to barely scratch the surface. Yeah, you won alright. America lost, though.
December 13th, 2005 at 6:45 pmPutzlius-
When Delay is convicted and the redistricting is rolled back you can take my ‘liberal ire’ and choke on it. The ‘liberal’ pol’s weakness is why your buddies are in the driver’s seat right now. The people with their low regard for your main man GW are way ahead of the politicians on this one. Somebody once said, ‘The people lead, politicians follow’. P.S. Ever heard of the Whig Party?
December 13th, 2005 at 6:52 pmI live in Peoria - character assasination plays quite well.
December 13th, 2005 at 7:15 pmWhatever happened to Organized Crime? They morphed into the Republican Syndicate.
December 13th, 2005 at 7:17 pmDeLay and The Duke: Together At Last
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer couple.
December 13th, 2005 at 7:35 pmThink Progress needs to give props , hat tips, credits, whatever to folks out there writing what they are expounding upon. Sherlock google is just one example, but I have seen a number of others in recent weeks, and it’s not just harmonic convergence.
Just sayin’.
December 13th, 2005 at 7:51 pmChristians are whackos.
-Tom Delay
December 13th, 2005 at 8:30 pmAt last, all the fowl (foul) are returning home to roost. It’s only a matter of time now.
December 13th, 2005 at 8:36 pmOK, OK, can at least one of you republicans give just one, JUST ONE example of how GWB and the repub party has made a difference in your PERSONAL LIFE in the past 4 years. JUST ONE EXAMPLE, cause I can’t see it. Did the Terry Shaivo case cause your DR. to take a second look at that terminally ill family member, or are you happy with the thought of increasing taxes, fuel costs or that big honkin’ SUV you finally purchased (to keep up with the Joneses) is now depreciating at an alarming rate, or the fact that your great-grandchildren won’t have made a dent in even the principal of the National Debt, or the fact that China now owns you (there’s something Tricky Dicky didn’t even see coming). C’mon, help me out here…..I don’t get it.
Treatyboy
December 13th, 2005 at 8:47 pmHey #32, where’d you get the Alice’s Restaurant reference? I made a joke about that a month ago. Just trying to figure out if someone picked it up or if that’s really where the name came from?
December 13th, 2005 at 8:53 pmThis guy is doing fantastic research on the Wilkes companies and their various, hideous ties.
December 13th, 2005 at 10:10 pmmoney dosn’t have sticky dna all over it does it?
December 13th, 2005 at 10:34 pmHey #55: I was watching FarmAid the other night, and when Arlo sang the song, I laughed. I was around when Arlo sang it in the 60s, but had forgotten it. Living in San Diego, with Duke and Wilkes et al. on my mind, it seemed timely to revive it. It’s just a joke, which evidently only you and I think is funny!
December 13th, 2005 at 10:37 pm[…] I posted a few days ago about the Biggest.Scandal.Ever. That has hit the big time and it looks like “The Dukester” and DeLay have finally linked up. Here a graphic for the Abramoff wing of the corruption. Yes, there are Democrats who received money from Jack. But it’s not like that’s illegal. Of course, if only the Republicans get indicted, it’s due to the rampant liberal bias in the DOJ. Nothing but left wing kooks and white flag wavers in the U.S. Dept. of Justice, right? […]
December 13th, 2005 at 10:58 pmHey Busted, regarding #11. I’d rather lose and be BLUE, than to be RED and like You!! But just like your name implies, your corrupt party is going down!
December 13th, 2005 at 11:00 pmOk it’s official. The Rethugs ARE all corrupt lying cheating bastards. But be warned The Rethugs are going to do whatever it takes to try to keep power. As more people wake up and learn the facts and scope of thier criminal activities they will stop at NOTHING to stamp out the truth. Marshall Law? Civilians being rounded up and locked up Gitmo style? Mass exacutions? I dunno but … this could get real ugly. What did Hitler did to the people who were not “good” Germans? Watch your backs.
December 13th, 2005 at 11:02 pmTrue Blue — where’s the Ethics Committee? Unfortunately, Pelosi and Democratic leadership want it to remain active, extended an informal “truce of snooze” that’s existed for the past couple of years.
Meanwhile, I blogged here about how this might affect Majority Leader elections.
December 13th, 2005 at 11:21 pmTo #55, DS:
Have you ever seen the movie?
Alice’s Restaurant?
Great flick. Plus, the song talks about it. The 30 minute(or so…I haven’t looked at it in a few years…)song.
Funny stuff.
Used to play it every Thanksgiving, but I guess my kid isn’t as politically active as me, and it kinda fell away.
If ever there was a time for a reprise, however……
December 13th, 2005 at 11:31 pm…as I
Jeez. Sorry, everyone!
December 13th, 2005 at 11:34 pmThey make a lovely couple.
But they may want to rethink that gay marriage thingy…I mean, considering they may be sharing a cell and all :|
December 13th, 2005 at 11:56 pm#11, how will this news, of BushCo’s Iran/Contra connection thru Wilkes of Delay’s money laundering and Cunningham’s bribes, play in Peoria? Well, Kerry won Peoria in 2004. Before the news was full of these heinous crimes against American democracy. I believe Peorians still believe in America, even if you don’t. Why do you hate America?
December 14th, 2005 at 12:12 amRight Fred, “leader honoring” ONLY applies to corrupt hypocritical Republicans, right? You people would twist and turn every logic to support your lousy leaders no matter how corrupt or incompetent they may be. I can imagine the vitriole you would be spouting if Bush were a Democrat.
December 14th, 2005 at 1:57 amWhat is “wrong” with this “Christian Nation”?
December 14th, 2005 at 2:55 amThe irony….a black person or poor white “trailer trash” stealing potato chips to live, after being abandoned by the very government we pay taxes too, they shoot to kill…
But the “Duke”, Tom DeLay, Ken Lay, Exxon Mobile, Shell, Halliburton, Frist, Ney, Cheney, Blunt, Hastert, DOD contractors, etc…..steal Irag’s resources, rob the National Treasury, screw the poor and middle class, give huge “tax breaks” to the wealthiest upper 1% (at your expense) and you all sit there with your TV, your six pack of cheap beer, and watch Bill O’Reilly’s bogus “liberal war on Christmas” I never thought I would live long enough to see the day when my fellow Americans could be so misguided, so uninformed, so full of hate and so totally lacking in compassion and good sense
I have asked many Republicans to name one thing, one single small thing that george bush has done to benefit them. Just one, most stop talking to me, the others change the subject.
December 14th, 2005 at 3:38 am#11 Freddie dear, you should know about character assassination. Your party was on Clinton’s “ass”assination from the moment he walked into the oval office. Any selective recollection of Atwater-Bush-Dukakis-Horton? Your man Karl Rove invented dirty tricks and character assassination. He’s been steeped in it since his days as a Young Republican Grinch in college. And then you say we should “honor and respect” our leaders. I’ll bet you just “honored and respected” the hell out of Bill Clinton. What is the name of the planet you live on where the meaning of “believing in values” is the antithesis of those of us with our feet planted firmly on this earth.
December 14th, 2005 at 10:08 amKids, decades ago there wasn’t the internet so creepy verbiage and assaults on integrity of those whose views didn’t ‘match’ weren’t as widely aired BUT you have invented nothing new. Politics has always invited the least civilized of responses by every so-called political group. The uglier- the more the heels are dug in. The less attention paid to the facts and issues. AND- the less done to accomplish anything worthwhile!!
December 14th, 2005 at 10:40 amI agree with #69, ANSWER THE QUESTION!
December 14th, 2005 at 11:32 am#58 & #63, I grew up in an area where our hippie DJ played Alice’s Restaurant every Thanksgiving. A fan on another blog included a couple lines of the song in a posting in mid-November. I caught the reference and brought up the Group W section of the song as it seemed to fit the current administration.
Yep, I’ve seen the movie, however having been indoctrinated with the song first, I prefer to be able to close my eyes and listen to it in its entirety with my own visuals.
That great hippie DJ is still on the air. This year, in addition to the original vinyl recording, he also played a version recorded by Guthrie after Nixon died. Guthrie claims he was told that Nixon had a copy of the recording and he ponders whether the minutes missing from the WH recordings are related to the song as they’re the same length.
December 14th, 2005 at 12:26 pmI will wait to see if Bush pardons all of them till shout it from the house top . The base is coming back to him I see .Don`t yhey watch when he does his speeches his body action and his pauses .I wish the Democrates would speak up they are losing anyway .The christen group is ruining tis country .backing him . I will take my old time regligion like Carter he is adoer not yapper.with his belief.
December 14th, 2005 at 1:12 pm[…] Looks like Texas prosecutors are working on linking Randy “Duke” Cunningham and Jean Schmidt’s favorite campaign contributor Tom “The Hammer” Delay. […]
December 14th, 2005 at 2:20 pm#60: You’re not reading me right. Look at my posts again. Not red, dude. Very blue.
December 14th, 2005 at 3:28 pmSchadenfreude!!! Little Ronnie Earle is about to blow up the whole Republican money-raising scam. I can’t wait!
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