FORMER CALIFORNIA REPRESENTATIVE Randy "Duke" Cunningham's guilty plea to bribery and tax evasion exposed Washington's backroom ways,where gifts to lawmakers are sometimes followed by official actions that benefit the officeholder's benefactors.But Cunningham's intervention on behalf of companies went far beyond the projects disclosed in court filings.Capitol Hill sources say Cunningham also delivered for the businesses that bribed him by slipping projects into the super-secret "black budget" that funds classified intelligence work.
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