Ex-Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham

LOS ANGELES Ex-Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham, newly imprisoned for bribery, has another debt to pay: three-point-six (m) million dollars in back taxes and restitution.

Some of that will be paid through a March 23rd auction of his expensive furniture, much of it given to him by defense contractors as bribes.



Britney Sheehan, whose company will hold the auction for the government, says some lovely Persian rugs are included, along with antique tables, a sideboard buffet and chests of drawers.



Sheehan says the government doesn't estimate what seized goods might fetch at auction. But appraisers say some of the rugs could be worth up to 40-thousand dollars each.



In addition, Cunningham has been ordered to forfeit the proceeds of his 76-hundred-square-foot mansion which sold in December for more than two-and-a-half (m) million.