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THE WEEK, Page 19NATIONTokens of Gratitude
A powerful Republican Congressman is charged with accepting
bribes
There aren't many congressional bodies more powerful than the
House Appropriations Committee, a fat channel through which
billions of dollars in federal contracts flow. A federal grand
jury charged Representative Joseph McDade, a 15-term
Congressman from Pennsylvania and the committee's ranking
Republican, with greasing that channel for some special friends
in return for $100,000 in bribes.
The indictment states that, during a five-year period in
the 1980s, McDade accepted money, air travel, use of vacation
houses, even a golf umbrella from five manufacturers in exchange
for help in obtaining defense contracts. Among the companies
seeking favors were Sperry (now Unisys), Grumman and United
Chem-Con, a now defunct contractor based in Lancaster, Penn.
McDade -- who ran unopposed for his party's renomination two
weeks ago and won the Democratic nomination as well on a
write-in vote -- denied the charges, saying the investigation
had turned his life into "a living nightmare."