Cunningham gets 8 years for taking millions in bribes

From today's San Francisco Chronicle:

San Diego, Calif.
Former congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R), a decorated fighter pilot in Vietnam who admitted taking $2.4 million in bribes from two defense contractors, was sentenced Friday to eight years and four months in federal prison.
Asked to put the dimensions of Cunningham's corruption in perspective, Thomas Mann, an expert on Congress at the Brookings Institution, said "we haven't seen anything like" the magnitude and duration of Cunningham's crimes since the Teapot Dome scandal of the 1920s.