I don't believe that it's just a coincidence that Virgil Goode happens to be on the appropriations committee and MZM employees broke the law to illegally donate huge amounts of money to his campaign. The ringleader in the scam has just pleaded guilty.

WASHINGTON — An ex-employee at a defense contractor pleaded guilty Friday to making illegal donations to the campaign of Rep. Virgil Goode, R-Va., marking the latest chapter in a congressional bribery probe.

Richard Berglund, who formerly supervised the Martinsville, Va., office of MZM Inc., faces up to a year in prison for engaging in a scheme with company owner Mitchell Wade to reimburse MZM employees for campaign donations. The scheme violates the Federal Election Campaign Act.

In February, Wade pleaded guilty to bribing former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, in exchange for help in getting $150 million in Defense Department contracts.
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The Virginia congressman leads the list of those receiving contributions tied to the company, said the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan group that tracks campaign spending.

I'm sure that they weren't bribing Goode with this money. I'm sure it was really important to them that Goode got reelected because of his one vote in Congress rather than his influential position on the House Appropriations Committee from which they stood to gain millions in government contracts. Goode having his hands on our country's purse-strings I'm sure had nothing to do with this scam by MZM to send him tens of thousands of dollars.

What a crook.