Wade bribed Goode (R-Va.) and Katherine Harris (R-Fla.)

* in an earlier post about Wade, I wrote: "of all the corruption cases we are seeing, i wonder how many will have nothing to do with either National Security and/or Election Fraud."

in the comments, viget says:

"Just to clarify, the criminal info DOES NOT imply that Wade had something to do with whatever potential fraud might have occurred in the 2004 elections. The elections fraud count has to do with scheming to violate FEC donation limits to two congressmen (I wonder who they are, one I'd bet is Duncan Hunter, but I have no clue as to the other) by reimbursing his MZM employees for personal contributions to these congressmen's campaigns in exchange for "earmarks" for MZM.

Any clue as to who Rep A and B are?"

Correct - I was thinking more about DeLay's money laundering and Hastert's 'fundraising' and Ney and all the rest. sorry for any confusion.

The plea says:

"Wade also made about $80,000 in illegal campaign contributions to the campaigns of two sitting Members of Congress. Wade targeted these two Members of Congress because he believed that these representatives had the ability to request appropriations funding that would benefit MZM."

According to rollcall:

"Wade also steered $78,000 in illegal contributions to the re-election campaigns of Reps. Virgil Goode (R-Va.) and Katherine Harris (R-Fla.) during the 2003-04 and 2005-06 election cycles. Neither lawmaker was aware that Wade was reimbursing other donors for making those contributions, according to the criminal information document."