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March 04, 2006

'Duke' Cunningham Sentenced To Eight Years For Bribery

Led From Courtroom... To A Waiting Jail Cell

"You've undermined the opportunity [that] honest politicians have to do good." It was with that damning statement that US District Court Judge Larry A. Burns ordered Randall "Duke" Cunningham -- war hero, "Top Gun" instructor and, most recently, disgraced former US congressman -- to eight years and four months in a federal prison for bribery.

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"After years of service to my country, going the right way, I made a very wrong turn. No man has ever been more sorry... Some say I've lost everything. But, your Honor, you have no idea. I have three children. I asked them to stay away. I didn't want them to go through this spectacle."

Source: Vietnam War ace, "Top Gun" instructor, and disgraced Congressman Randall "Duke" Cunningham, pleading with Judge Larry A. Burns Friday for clemency at his sentencing on two counts of bribery. Unswayed, Burns threw the book at Cunningham -- sentencing the former war hero to eight years and four months in federal prison. It would have been ten years -- the maximum allowed under a previous plea bargaining -- but Burns deducted time from that sentence in light of Cu