Apparently Dick Cheney was involved in the pay for play/bribery game with the Duke and Wade. The only difference is DICK CHENEY used TAXPAYER money for the payola.
Apparently this was the case Arlen Spector was talking of when he said, the reason Lam was let go was for whom she was going to investigate.
"– Washington D.C. defense contractor Mitchell Wade pled guilty last February to paying then-California Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham more than $1 million in bribes.
– Wade’s company MZM Inc. received its first federal contract from the White House. The contract, which ran from July 15 to August 15, 2002, stipulated that Wade be paid $140,000 to "provide office furniture and computers for Vice President Dick Cheney."
– Two weeks later, on August 30, 2002, Wade purchased a yacht for $140,000 for Duke Cunningham. The boat’s name was later changed to the "Duke-Stir." Said one party to the sale: "I knew then that somebody was going to go to jail for that...Duke looked at the boat, and Wade bought it — all in one day. Then they got on the boat and floated away."
– According to Cunningham’s sentencing memorandum, the purchase price of the boat had been negotiated earlier that summer, around the same time the White House contact was signed."
Think Progress has it here:
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