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More Of Cunningham's Items To Be Auctioned Off

Items To Be On Auction Block Thursday

POSTED: 3:46 pm PDT June 7, 2006
UPDATED: 4:55 pm PDT June 7, 2006

If you're looking for some new home furnishings, there's still a chance to acquire a few of the items former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham accepted as bribes in the scandal that landed him in prison.

Two Oriental rugs and three doors that the Rancho Santa Fe Republican received as bribes are to be auctioned Thursday morning near Los Angeles, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported.

The oak doors with leaded-glass panels were part of the huge cache of Cunningham's ill-gotten furnishings auctioned off March 23, but the high bidder didn't pay for them, so they're being auctioned again, according to the newspaper.

The rugs were seized too late to be part of that auction.

In pleading guilty to conspiracy and tax charges Nov. 29, Cunningham turned over thousands of dollars in antiques and other furnishings he received from a Pentagon contractor.

The rugs are 2 and a half feet wide and 32 and 39 feet long. The longer runner was used in the Rancho Santa Fe mansion Cunningham bought with bribe money, the Union-Tribune reported.

Thursday's auction is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. at EG&G Technical Services, 2332 East Pacifica Place in Rancho Dominguez.

Proceeds from this sale, together with more than $90,000 collected at the March auction, will go to two agencies that investigated Cunningham's crimes: the FBI and the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division, the Union-Tribune reported.

Cunningham admitted accepting more than $2.4 million in bribes for steering Pentagon contracts to select contractors. He is serving more than eight years in federal prison.

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