Has Duke's CunningScam been an open secret for a long, long time?

TPM Reader JS pointed my attention to this clip in The Hotline from late 1997 about Duke's string pulling for Brent Wilkes' ADCS, the company the Feds raided yesterday afternoon ...

Copley's Wilkie reports, the "affable" Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R) "effuses" about a San Diego software company, ADCS, "that recently won a lucrative" DoD contract to "convert paper records to electronic files. ... But to others involved in the same project, (his) enthusiasm went beyond cost-saving zeal and regional promotion." Critics say he helped direct $3.2M worth of DoD business to ADCS which is run by campaign contributor Brent Wilkes, who gave Cunningham $2K in '96 and whose business partner, Randall Kerley, gave him $500. "How directly and passionately did (Cunningham) pressure the Pentagon on behalf" of ADCS? He "says he merely talked up" ADCS because it had the best software, "despite Pentagon assessments that others had superior products." But "others, however, say" Cunningham "pressed" DoD officials "to go with Wilkes' company, using as a stick his strong ties with military brass and his powerful position" on the House Nat'l Securtiy Cmte in '96. Pentagon officials are mum on the issue. "For his part, Cunningham says that anyone, including a reporter, who dares paint his actions as anything but aboveboard "can go to hell" and he has said that he told DoD to go with the best company. Wilkie concludes: "Regardless of who had the better product, the issue may be whether (he) should have used his Pentagon ties to promote any company run by a campaign contributor" (12/12).

And how much <$NoAd$> second-rate product is the Pentagon using today because of Duke Cunningham?

And why isn't there more of an outcry that this guy is still serving in Congress?