According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, three months after Lewis became chairman of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee he received $17,000 from Wilkes and his associates. Wilkes was trying get a contract from the Pentagon to digitize documents in the Panama Canal Zone. However, the Pentagon did not want to give Wilkes' ADCS, Inc. the amount of money that he was asking for. Wilkes issued Cunningham a memo -- which was released in government documents along with Cunnginham's guilty plea -- stating, "We need $10 m(illion) more immediately . . . This is very important and if you cannot resolve this others will be calling also."
The "other" names have been blacked out from the document although the first letter of the first name begins with a "D" and the first letter of the second name begins with a "J".
The "other" names have been blacked out from the document although the first letter of the first name begins with a "D" and the first letter of the second name begins with a "J".
Educated guesses have led some to state that the blacked out names are Duncan Hunter and Jerry Lewis
Congressman Hunter has not been implicated in the Cunningham/Wilkes congressional bribery scandal.
Congressman Hunter has not been implicated in the Cunningham/Wilkes congressional bribery scandal.
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