{"id":917,"date":"2005-11-28T18:14:32","date_gmt":"2005-11-28T22:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2005\/11\/28\/cunningham-pleads-guilty\/"},"modified":"2005-11-28T18:14:32","modified_gmt":"2005-11-28T22:14:32","slug":"cunningham-pleads-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2005\/11\/cunningham-pleads-guilty\/","title":{"rendered":"Cunningham pleads guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/POLITICS\/11\/28\/congressman.shouse.ap\/index.html\">CNN.com &#8211; Rep. Cunningham pleads guilty to tax violations &#8211; Nov 28, 2005<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nRep. Randy &#8220;Duke&#8221; Cunningham pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy and tax charges. He admitted taking $2.4 million in bribes in a case that grew from an investigation into the sale of his home to a wide-ranging conspiracy involving payments in cash, vacations and antiques. Appearing close to tears, Cunningham said today: &#8220;I cannot undo what I have done but I can atone.&#8221; U.S. Attorney Carol Lam said: &#8220;He did the worst thing an elected official can do &#8212; he enriched himself through his position.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At least he admitted it, finally &#8211; unlike his unnamed conspirators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN.com &#8211; Rep. Cunningham pleads guilty to tax violations &#8211; Nov 28, 2005 Rep. Randy &#8220;Duke&#8221; Cunningham pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy and tax charges. He admitted taking $2.4 million in bribes in a case that grew from an investigation into the sale of his home to a wide-ranging conspiracy involving payments in cash, vacations and antiques. Appearing close to tears, Cunningham said today: &#8220;I cannot undo what I have done but I can atone.&#8221; U.S. Attorney Carol Lam said:&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2005\/11\/cunningham-pleads-guilty\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-nation","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}