Feds Allege Cunningham Conspirator Hid Docs Near Stash of "Embarrassing" Items

[Hissyspit]

Source: Talking Points Memo

Feds Allege Cunningham Conspirator Hid Docs Near Stash of "Embarrassing" Items
By Paul Kiel - September 25, 2007, 11:25AM

In a filing today, prosecutors allege that John Michael, who's been indicted for laundering Cunningham's bribes and lying to investigators, hid incriminating documents by keeping them with what prosecutors call "a stash of personal entertainment materials and paraphernalia." You can read the filing here.

The prosecutors don't identify exactly what those items are, but note that "Michael has expressed extreme embarrassment" over them and that "their nature objectively supports his perspective" (read: he has good reason to be embarrassed). They say that they'll identify the materials at a court hearing if need be.

Prosecutors want to introduce evidence of Michael's embarrassing "stash," in order to prove that he knew the Cunningham documents were, in their own way, as embarrassing. That he kept documentation of Cunningham's sketchy mortgage details in a place where he also stored "materials he did not want to anyone else to learn about" proves, they write, that he knew he was up to no good.

Part of the indictment against Michael, the nephew to Greek man of mystery Thomas Kontogiannis -- prosecutors call Michael and Kontogiannis "professional money launderers" -- is that he obstructed justice by forging record of the Cunningham mortgages and hiding others.

Michael is scheduled to go on trial along with Brent Wilkes in October, but a later trial date is expected to be set.

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[sinkingfeeling]

1. Can't they say 'porn'?

[LeftyMom]

2. I'm thinking sex toys.

:shrug:

[spinbaby]

3. Could have been more than porn

I can think of any number of amusing toys he might have had.

[beberocks]

5. Betcha it's gay porn. Consistent with the closet GOP mentality. n/t

[Mz Pip]

15. Perhaps a case

of GW Bush look alike vibrating butt plugs.

I wouldn't go near those either.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Mz Pip]

16. Aren't sex toys illegal

in some states thanks to those good old fashioned GOP family values police?

Lucky it was in California.


Mz Pip
:dem:

[peekaloo]

4. I'm guessing Teletubbie videos and dolls .

Providing you read Teletubbie videos as porn and dolls as dildos.

[tanyev]

6. That might explain Falwell's Tinky Winky obsession.

[annabanana]

7. Oh now that's just plain funny

What? Are these guys all 12 years old?

[htuttle]

8. They gotta be talking about an anal probe

Oops! Did I say that out loud?

[TrogL]

10. There's a perfectly legitimate reason for having one

Older men should have regular prostate massage.

If you can't find a willing partner (doesn't have to be male), it's do it yourself time.

[MidwestTransplant]

9. Porn? I don't find this to be credible. He is a religious conservative. Clearly this is a smear.

[loves_dulcinea]

11. know what would be more embarrassing than gay sex toyz?

fake vaginas, you know the sort which are little more than buttocks and pubis?

possibly a penis enlarger. i mean, if he feels that he has to live in a closet, or is afraid of aids, then gay toys are understandable, you follow?

but vagina substitutes, that would be ghastly... still, at least he didn't play diaper games (that we know of).

[Beetwasher]

12. "Uhh, No, Really Officer, That 14 Inch "Black Kong" Dildo Is

For educational purposes only..no..no..no.. I mean all of them were gag gifts. Yeah, that's it. Gag gifts."

[derby378]

13. I call them "prosthetic marital assistance devices"

:rofl:

[daleo]

14. How about a hookah and some roach clips

Just to be a bit different.