Cunningham Transferred to San Diego Jail (Attorney and Feds Won't Say Why)

Source: Associated Press

Cunningham Transferred to San Diego Jail

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Former U.S. Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, who is serving more than eight years in prison for accepting bribes, has been transferred to a downtown jail, but his attorney and federal prosecutors won't say why.

Cunningham has been cooperating with federal prosecutors as they prepare for the September trial of Brent Wilkes, a defense contractor charged with bribing the congressman in exchange for contracts. Wilkes has pleaded not guilty to more than 30 counts of bribery, fraud, money laundering and conspiracy.

Cunningham, 66, is listed as an inmate at the Metropolitan Correctional Center across the street from the courthouse where he was sentenced in March 2006. He has been serving time at a medical facility in North Carolina and at a low-security work camp near Tucson, Ariz.

An attorney for Cunningham, K. Lee Blalack III, said he did not know how long the former lawmaker would remain in San Diego, declining to comment further. Prosecutors declined to comment on Cunningham's transfer, and an attorney for Wilkes did not immediately respond to a phone message.

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I want to know about who else Carol Lam investigated before the purge.

He was in a low security camp and now is in the downtown jail. Has he stopped cooperating?

He's earning his reduced sentence right now.

Hope he takes down some more crooks.

... like a canary getting a more convenient cage to sing in.

He is going to be testifying.

... just an observer of how these things have gone down in the recent past.

And Cunningham strikes me as the type of canary who wants to sing an entire opera, out of anger at being caged for doing what all the other dirty birds are doing (the ones who haven't been caught yet), and out of desire for things like pizza and scotch - treats that good canaries are promised for being good.

... knows how to sing ALL of Mr. Lewis' greatest hits.

doe a deer a female deer, ray a drop of golden sun...........san diego sun..

i will sing all day, if i think the other criminals will be going down!!

wooo wooo

I LOVE CANARIES!!

fly

And I LOVE the fact that the GOP always thinks they're inner sanctum consists of vultures that will fight to their dyin' breath, when what they really have are a bunch of canaries, willing to sing for a dime.

OR BOTH??????

FLY:shrug: :shrug:

:hi: NANCE

Can't wait till prison guards confiscate it.

...for those with Multiple Sclerosis...sad, I tell you.

:silly:

(Sorry. I realize I may be a little new around here to make that sort of joke, but is saw the name jErRy LeWiS and I just cOuLdN't ReSisT...

:hi: :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi:


FLY

;-)

But Jerry Lewis = Muscular Dystrophy

You're right, of course.

OR MAYBE THE OTHER CONGRESS MEMBERS HE WAS SINGING ABOUT .. are about to be charged?? and they had to protect the rat from the the other boys in the pig sty ( prison) ?

no one likes rats in those places!!

fly

looks like someone might be tampering with the Cunningham case , !!!!
Edited on Tue Jul-24-07 09:32 PM by caligirl


this is the very last comment as of 6:30 pm PT at the last hurrah link above.


biggerbox | July 24, 2007 at 16:39

PJ-
Although Lam has been removed- the case against Wilkes/Foggo and Wilkes/Michael is progressing. The US Atty who is now "acting" USA in San Diego - Karen Hewitt- seems not to be a political appointee AFAIK. And the same Prosecutors are working on the case. However, there seem to be a certain air of secrecy about certain aspects of the case that may or may not be justified.

The UT published the Feb 2007 interviews with Cunningham on Wed. Cunningham did a lot of co-operating in this interview although he may not have earlier. But the prosecution wanted the document kept secret. Today the paper revealed where the reporters got ahold of the documents.

Granger, the attorney for defendant Michael, attached a copy of the FBI interviews along with his recent court filing. And he sent a copy to the UT's lawyers as a "professional courtesy" since they sent him their brief. USA Forge complained because Granger had not blacked out "personal information" but the Judge "took no action on it."

I read the interviews and couldn't really find a reason that they would be sealed. There did not seem to be anything classified in them. And originally Forge had told the judge they would release them, but then changed his mind, citing that the information needed to remain sealed. Perhaps someone in Washington DC changed his mind for him. This, and an earlier "leak" that gave the defense a flimsy grounds for acquittal seem to make me suspicious that somebody is tampering with the case.

Kontogiannis' personal info is available from other sources- so I'm still wondering about why this was sealed in the first place.



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sounds like to me they did move him for protection!!!

fly

you would think if them inmates even had two living brain cells they would probably be cheering him on :shrug:

Just look at the mansion and the yacht he used his position to get.

I'm guessing that a few months in that work camp have softened him up enough to name the big names.

jail ain't necessarily easier than the prison ... i think for the most part they might be worse. it may be for the prosecutors of the BW case comfort, and not cunningham's

said it was so that he could be closer by in order to be interviewed by Attorney's in preparation for testimony etc. in the trials against Wilkes etc.

My guess too is that its for his own protection too...probably cut a deal too...that he could be closer to home while being safer.

in order to save their own skins) "What is the nature of a thing?"