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Did they really say "Bribery flap"! As a constituent of the former congressman, I find it completely offensive that they would dismiss this as a "flap." Lets look at the facts: (1) $2.4 MILLION in bribes is, as the prosecutor said "unprecedented in magnitude," (2) these were not campaign donations that you could possibly argue are not direct bribes, they were direct payments to the congressmen's personal bank account, (3) this happened during wartime on military contracts, which for all we know endangered our troops or at the very least wasted funds that could have been used to better protect them. Everyone has been playing the "fallen hero" angle (he was an Ace pilot in Vietnam), but what kind of veteran/hero sells out the safety of his brothers and sisters in the military during a war in exchange for bribes! On another note, Fox News can hardly be blamed for failing to mention the party affiliation when the AP article that went out didn't either (I hear it may have been corrected later).
