The Angry Duke

The guy's in jail on a reduced sentence and still he won't give up what he knows:

Randy Cunningham has not been helping federal authorities as they continue to probe the former North County congressman's web of corruption, a top Pentagon investigator said Tuesday.

Rick Gwin, special agent in charge of the Defense Criminal Investigative Service's western regional office, said he is troubled by the lack of assistance, particularly in light of Cunningham's plea agreement that calls for him to tell all that he knows.

"In my opinion, he has not been cooperative and I have not gotten any information from him to further develop other targets," Gwin said in a telephone interview from his office in Mission Viejo. "I was hoping that from a jail cell, he might become more cooperative, but we just don't have the cooperation that I think we should have."

I expect the feds will turn the screws without delay, and the Dukestir will realize he has few options. Special Agent Gwin agrees:

Gwin said the continuing investigation into three unindicted Cunningham co-conspirators and others who may have assisted them in the awarding of defense contracts is a widespread probe with many different avenues.

"This is much bigger and wider than just Randy 'Duke' Cunningham," he said. "All that has just not come out yet, but it won't be much longer and then you will know just how widespread this is."

Of course, Dusty Foggo, the former number 3 man at the CIA, resigned his post and is about to be indicted for improperly awarding defense contracts to Brent Wilkes (who also bribed the Dukestir). Wilkes is also accused of providing hookers of unspecified gender to Cunningham and possibly a half-dozen other members of Congress at poker games he set up at the Watergate and the Westin Hotels in DC.

Once Cunningham realizes that he has no choice but to cooperate, there's going to be a race to the finish as to whether the Dukestir scandal or the Abramoff scandal will be bigger. I figure it'll be neck and neck right up to Election Day.