‘Straw’ Donors Fueled Wade

By John Bresnahan
Roll Call Staff

February 27, 2006

The guilty plea on Friday by Mitchell Wade, a defense contractor who paid more than $1 million in bribes to former Rep. Duke Cunningham (R-Calif.), has raised new questions about Wade’s relationship with Reps. Virgil Goode (R-Va.) and Katherine Harris (R-Fla.) and the tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions he steered to the two GOP lawmakers.

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