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[filkertom]

Randy "Duke" Cunningham, the California Republican who pleaded guilty to accepting $2.4 million in bribes, will apparently keep his Congressional pension, perqs, and Navy pension, despite having completely betrayed the public trust for money. Oh, and the FEC let him pay his legal bills out of his campaign war chest.

Update: wcq and filkerdave have pointed out, correctly, that the Navy pension was earned before Cunningham became a legislator. You guys are right. That's his, and it should be. It has nothing to do with his conduct in office. But I think that, not only should he not get the Congressional pension and perqs, he should have to pay back what he earned as a legislator. Bastard.

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[jaydeenvy.livejournal.com]

Ridiculous. They should have rules for somebody stepping down differing from normal rules.. especially if its something like this.

Or at least make him pay his fines out of his own pocket.

The corruption of our current political system is very disillusioning.

:(