THE JERRY LEWIS/Wilkes CONNECTION:

[The Sushi Bandit]

http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/apps/nl/newsletter2.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=917053

Sorry if this is a repost..

Note: military contractor Brent Wilkes -- who is referred to as "co-conspirator No. 1" in Justice department documents -- and who provided more that $630,00 in cash and favors to Cunningham "for help in landing millions of dollars in federal contracts."


Wilkes also employed a lobbyist named Bill Lowery, paying him about $200,000 between 1998-2000. What did all that money buy? Access to House Appropriations Committee chairman Jerry Lewis. According to a three month investigation by Copley News Service, Lewis "has greenlighted hundreds of millions of dollars in federal project for clients" of Bill Lowrey. Meanwhile, "Lowery, the partners at his firm and their clients have donated 37 percent of the $1.3 million that Lewis' political action committee received in the past six years." Copley reports "the essential ingredient in the Lew-Lowery relationship is earmarking, the congressional practice in which special projects, sometimes derided as 'pork,' are slipped quietly into the federal budget without public review." Virtually every client who has signed up with Lowery in recent years "cashed in with earmarks." Lowery was also tight with Duke Cunningham, paying the staff's $1800 bill for their 2001

[NMDemDist2]

1. here i envisioned Gone with the Wind staring a 60's comedian n/t

[dancingme]

5. Did Jerry's Kids get any of the money

while Atlanta burned?

[stillcool]

2. an Abramoff spin-off?...

these guys move money using the same techniques. One big scam.

[The Sushi Bandit]

3. Yes, but the press have not talked about it yet!

[radio4progressives]

4. Wilkes contributed to Duncan Hunter, was he mentioned in this piece?

as i mentioned in another thread, Repuke Congress Member from San Diego chairs the House Armed Services Committee and is knee deep in DoD contract dung - It was reported in a USA Today article that Wilkes contributed to both Hunter and Duke Cunninham - I'm xing my fingers that Hunter is the one that the Duke talked to, wearing the wire - and i hope he got the goods on him.

I've been looking out for some mention of who and what regarding the wire.

here's the USA Today article:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-11-29-cunningham-case_x.htm?csp=34