It's a small world surrounding the disgraced and resigned-from-Congress Duke Cunningham and the indicted Tom DeLay. Travis County District Attorney, Ronnie Early, is following the trail of money that flowed into Texas prior to the election of 2002, and what did he find?
$15,000 from a company owned by Brent Wilked, the briber of Cunningham, was sent to DeLay's Texans for a Republican Majority PAC (TRMPAC.) The source of the money is another suspicious transaction which took $40,000 from a Republican "investor(?)", William Bain Adams, into one of Brent wilkes' companies (Perfectwave Technologies), then two days later transfered $15,000 to TRMPAC and $25,000 to fund a "Tribute to Heroes" gala, organized by Wilkes, that feted Cunningham with a trophy naming him a hero.
This is of interest to Ronnie Early because Texas Law prohibits the use of corporate contributions for purposes of campaiging in Texas elections, and TRMPAC has been the source of contributions used by Republican candidates for the Legislator in the 2002 election. This is also of interest to the rest of us because it ties the disgraced and convicted "Duke" Cunningham directly to Tom DeLay's TRMPAM.
[Source the Austin-American Statesman (registration required.)]
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