{"id":197255,"date":"2008-02-19T19:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T00:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/19\/duke-cunningham-briber-brent-wilkes-gets-12-years\/"},"modified":"2008-02-19T19:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T00:49:00","slug":"duke-cunningham-briber-brent-wilkes-gets-12-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/19\/duke-cunningham-briber-brent-wilkes-gets-12-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke Cunningham Briber Brent Wilkes Gets 12 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The prosecutor wanted 25 years, the probation officer recommended over 50 years, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/02\/wilkes_sentenced_to_12_years_f.php\">judge went with the low side<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that the judge did not buy the prosecution&#8217;s argument that it was all Wilkes, and believed that Randy &#8220;Duke&#8221; Cunningham was not a mind bogglingly stupid pawn, but shared some responsibility in this.<\/p>\n<p>However, the judge has sent him to <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/02\/judge_wilkes_is_a_liar.php\">jail immediately<\/a>, no bail on appeal, because he deemed Wilkes a lying sack of sh%$.  (My words, not his)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prosecutor wanted 25 years, the probation officer recommended over 50 years, but the judge went with the low side. It appears that the judge did not buy the prosecution&#8217;s argument that it was all Wilkes, and believed that Randy &#8220;Duke&#8221; Cunningham was not a mind bogglingly stupid pawn, but shared some responsibility in this. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}