Excerpt from CBS News:
In addition to pleading guilty to bribing Cunningham, Wade has admitted to funneling $78,000 in illegal campaign contributions to Rep. Virgil Goode (R-Va.) and former Rep. Katherine Harris (R-Fla.), as well as steering gifts to Defense Department employees in an effort to get them to help his company, MZM Inc. Wade paid a $1 million to the Federal Election Commission over these improper contributions. There is no evidence that Harris or Goode, who lost re-election bids in 2006 and 2008 respectively, engaged in any illegal behavior in response to the contributions, according to DOJ.
And looks like Goode and Harris are Representative A and B from Wade's court documents of his guilty plea. See here. And here.
Also, sometime ago, Melanie Sloan from CREW filed a lawsuit with FEC against Wade on improper comtributions probe into the following candidates that accepted money from MZM Inc:
Duke Cunningham Mario Diaz-Balart, Randy Forbes, Virgil Goode, Katherine Harris, Duncan Hunter, John Murtha, Rick Renzi, and Senators Elizabeth Dole, Lindsey Graham, Trent Lott, and Jeff Sessions. See pg. 5 of CREW's complaint.
It make you wonder if any of the Congressional leaders listed on CREW's complaint were one of the five that Wade is giving to the investigators. One has to wonder if Tom Delay or Rep. John Doolittle are also one of the five.
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