Duke’s Wife and Her Job

Cunningham’s spouse spent 16 months at the Education Dept.

Former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham, R-Calif., may have used his political connections to get his wife a well-paying job at the Department of Education, according to a recent article in The New Republic .

Mr. Cunningham is serving an eight-year prison sentence, after pleading guilty in March to taking $2.4 million in bribes from two defense contractors.

Nancy Cunningham, 54, who has now separated from her husband, came to Washington in 2002, when she was named chief of staff to the assistant secretary for management at the Education Department, according to the story in the neoliberal political journal. It was written by Kitty Kelley, the controversial biographer of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Nancy Reagan,...