{"id":67172,"date":"2006-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2006\/01\/12\/cunningham-sur-le-meme-pied-quabramoff\/"},"modified":"2006-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"cunningham-sur-le-meme-pied-quabramoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2006\/01\/12\/cunningham-sur-le-meme-pied-quabramoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Cunningham sur le m\u00eame pied qu’Abramoff ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Une th\u00e9orie persistante \u00e0 Washington est que le scandale Cunningham<\/a> vaut bien le scandale Abramoff<\/a> en intensit\u00e9 et en gravit\u00e9, et que l’on aura des \u00e9chos consid\u00e9rables lors des deux proc\u00e8s (Cunningham et Abramoff) qui se d\u00e9rouleront parall\u00e8lement au printemps.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tBien que dans des positions diff\u00e9rentes (Abramoff est lobbyiste tandis que Cunningham est parlementaire), les deux hommes ont accept\u00e9 la m\u00eame proc\u00e9dure de coop\u00e9ration avec la justice, les pla\u00e7ant tous les deux en position d’accusateurs. (Cunningham l’a fait dans conditions particuli\u00e8rement humiliantes<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLa courte analyse de Progress Report<\/em>, intitul\u00e9e \u00ab The Other Mega-Scandal<\/em> \u00bb, en date du 6 janvier<\/a>, reste d’actualit\u00e9. En voici deux extraits :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abLobbyist Jack Abramoff pled guilty to to fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy to bribe public officials, capturing the attention of Washington’s chattering class who believe Abramoff will incriminate numerous members of Congress. (They are probably right.) But another scandal which could be equally damaging to powerful conservatives in Congress lurks in the shadows. Federal prosecutors have already secured a guilty plea from former Rep. Randy Duke’ Cunningham (R-CA), who had admitted to to taking more than $2 million in bribes in a criminal conspiracy involving at least three defense contractors. But the investigation is far from over. In the end, two powerful House chairman Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) of the Armed Services Committee and Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA) of the Appropriations Committee could become ensarled in the legal probe. Both men have close connections to military contractor Brent Wilkes who is referred to as co-conspirator No. 1 in Justice department documents and who provided more that $630,000 in cash and favors to Cunningham for help in landing millions of dollars in federal contracts.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb It is conventional wisdom that the government agreed to a plea deal with Jack Abramoff one of the most powerful lobbyists in Washington only after he agreed to provide information about people higher up the food chain, powerful members of Congress. The government also gave Rep. Duke Cunningham a plea deal. Why? It stands the reason that he will cooperate in efforts to prosecute more powerful members of Congress, possibly including Hunter and Lewis.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t[Pour compl\u00e9ter cette nouvelle, nous mettons en ligne ce jour<\/a>, dans notre rubrique de defensa<\/em>, un extrait de la rubrique Journal de l’\u00e9dition du 10 janvier 2006 de notre Lettre d’Analyse de defensa<\/em> consacr\u00e9 \u00e0 l’affaire Cunningham.]<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tMis en ligne le 12 janvier 2006 \u00e0 16H14<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Une th\u00e9orie persistante \u00e0 Washington est que le scandale Cunningham vaut bien le scandale Abramoff en intensit\u00e9 et en gravit\u00e9, et que l’on aura des \u00e9chos consid\u00e9rables lors des deux proc\u00e8s (Cunningham et Abramoff) qui se d\u00e9rouleront parall\u00e8lement au printemps. Bien que dans des positions diff\u00e9rentes (Abramoff est lobbyiste tandis que Cunningham est parlementaire), les… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4913,1571,4925],"class_list":["post-67172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-abramoff","tag-cunningham","tag-scandales"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}