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Associated Press is saying that Republican former Representative Cunningham’s guilty plea to charges that he was bribed with well over two mimllion dollars in exchange for government contracts was “only the start.”

The political scandal that brought down former U.S. Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham didn’t end when the Vietnam War hero began serving an eight-year sentence in federal prison for taking millions of dollars in bribes.

Since Cunningham, R-San Diego, was sentenced in March, the case has turned into a sprawling federal investigation with all the soap opera elements - money, power and sex. One of Washington, D.C.’s most notorious landmarks - the Watergate Hotel - even has a place in it.

The case has many wondering where it will go next after a dizzying week in which the name of Rep. Jerry Lewis, chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, surfaced in the probe and the home of the outgoing executive director of the CIA was searched.

Lewis is another House Republican from California. Full article.

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