Another probe in Cunningham case

After a recent report that he was not fully cooperating with ongoing probes, Randy Cunningham is ready to assist in a new examination of congressional corruption announced by the House ethics committee this week, his attorney said Thursday.

"He will cooperate with that investigation just as he is cooperating with all the others," attorney K. Lee Blalack said of Cunningham, who is in prison after pleading guilty to accepting more than $2.4 million in bribe.

Last week, Rick Gwin of the Pentagon's Defense Criminal Investigative Service complained Cunningham had not been cooperating in the manner his agency expected following the former 50th Congressional District Republican's sentencing in March to eight years, four months in prison for bribery and tax evasion.

Blalack refused to expand on the type of cooperation he said Cunningham will give congressional investigators.

On Wednesday, the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct announced it had launched an investigation to determine if other congressional members or staffers aided Cunningham in improperly influencing the awarding of government contracts.


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