{"id":2221,"date":"2006-03-05T15:44:52","date_gmt":"2006-03-05T15:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2221"},"modified":"2006-03-05T15:44:52","modified_gmt":"2006-03-05T15:44:52","slug":"pricing_politic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2221","title":{"rendered":"Pricing Politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"Alex Tabarrok\">Alex Tabarrok<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Prosecutors call it a corruption case with no parallel in the long history of the U.S. Congress. And it keeps getting worse. Convicted Rep. Randall &#8220;Duke&#8221; Cunningham actually priced the illegal services he provided.<\/p>\n<p>Prices came in the form of a &#8220;bribe menu&#8221; that detailed how much it would cost contractors to essentially order multimillion-dollar government contracts&#8230;the California Republican&#8217;s &#8220;bribery menu&#8221;&#8230; shows an escalating scale for bribes, starting at $140,000 and a luxury yacht for a $16 million Defense Department contract. Each additional $1 million in contract value required a $50,000 bribe.<\/p>\n<p>The rate dropped to $25,000 per additional million once the contract went above $20 million.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Tabarrok: Prosecutors call it a corruption case with no parallel in the long history of the U.S. Congress. And it keeps getting worse. Convicted Rep. Randall &#8220;Duke&#8221; Cunningham actually priced the illegal services he provided. Prices came in the form of a &#8220;bribe menu&#8221; that detailed how much it would cost contractors to essentially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}