Randy Duke Cunningham dies bribery scandal congressman.

Randy “Duke” Cunningham, whose feats as a U.S. Navy flying ace during the Vietnam War catapulted him to a U.S House of Representatives career that ended in disgrace when he was convicted of accepting $2.4 million in bribes, has died. He was 83. Cunningham died Wednesday at a hospital in a Little Rock, Arkansas, and was one of the most highly decorated pilots in the Vietnam War. He went on to serve eight terms in Congress before pleading guilty in 2005 to receiving illegal gifts from defense contractors, in what was the largest bribery scandal in congressional history at the time.