{"id":198859,"date":"2007-10-03T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/03\/schadenfreude-echos-of-duke-cunningham\/"},"modified":"2007-10-03T17:15:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T22:15:00","slug":"schadenfreude-echos-of-duke-cunningham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/03\/schadenfreude-echos-of-duke-cunningham\/","title":{"rendered":"Schadenfreude: Echos of Duke Cunningham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i7.photobucket.com\/albums\/y284\/fullmulletalchemist\/nelson_ha_ha.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brent Wilkes&#8217; lawyer Mark Geragos had previously thrown around bogus subpoenas at about a dozen members of congress, who promptly had the house lawyer to pound sand, but it looks like <b>this<\/b> time Wilkes&#8217; lawyer is actually targeting representatives who have ties to him.  They are all Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>His defense is going to be, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t bribe anyone, I was shaken down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmmuckraker.com\/archives\/004365.php\">Wilkes to Target Five Pols for Testimony<\/a><\/span><br \/>Even though Geragos dropped the initial subpoenas, he told reporters later that he planned to file new ones against former House Speaker U.S. Rep. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., and California Republican Reps. John Doolittle, Duncan Hunter, Darrell Issa and Jerry Lewis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The substance of Wilkes&#8217; defense is that he was not bribing people, but he was being shaken down by members of Congress, and these 5 guys flew on Wilkes&#8217; plane, and ate at his dinner, so their testimony is relevant.<\/p>\n<p>Pass the popcorn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brent Wilkes&#8217; lawyer Mark Geragos had previously thrown around bogus subpoenas at about a dozen members of congress, who promptly had the house lawyer to pound sand, but it looks like this time Wilkes&#8217; lawyer is actually targeting representatives who have ties to him. They are all Republicans. His defense is going to be, &#8220;I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,972,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-justice","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198859"}],"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=198859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}