Photo: Rep. Duncan D. Hunter and his wife, Margaret, are seen in La Mesa at the 2014 Polosia United event for Polish-Americans in the San Diego region. Margaret is the oldest daughter of Steve and Miroslawa Jankowski, a couple who moved their two daughters to America in the late 1980s, escaping “the bleak landscape of communist Poland,” according to Steve Jankowski’s 2010 obituary quoted by The San Diego Union-Tribune.Photo by Miriam Raftery
June 14, 2019 (San Diego) - Downtown attorney Jeremy Warren had work to do Thursday, but he took time to comment on what transpired in the federal courthouse a few blocks away.
Hunter changing her plea to guilty in the corruption case enveloping herselfand her husband, Rep. Duncan D. Hunter.
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June 13, 2019 (San Diego) - Silver-haired Judge Thomas Whelansmiled to a packed federal courtroom Thursday as he took his chair in a case that could lead to the unseating ofRep. Duncan D. Hunter.
But Hunter’s wife, Margaret, wasn’t smiling as she pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy to use campaign funds for a family vacation in November 2015 — and attested to $200,000 in fraudulent spending involving at least 30 illegal transactions.
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