(Former No. 3 CIA official Kyle "Dusty") Foggo Indictment Expected

[sabra]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/02/foggo_indictmen.html

Foggo Indictment Expected; Dark Day for the CIA


Federal prosecutors in San Diego are expected today to announce indictments in a case that involves the former No. 3 official at the CIA, Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, officials tell ABC News.

Foggo, who served as the CIA's executive director, was accused last year by fellow CIA employees of steering contracts for the CIA station in Iraq to longtime friend Brent Wilkes, a defense contractor whose activities also led to the indictment of former Republican Congressman Duke Cunningham.

Officials said today's expected indictments will also include Wilkes.

At his home in suburban Washington, D.C., this morning, Foggo declined to comment to ABC News.

[Greeby]

1. ..............

:popcorn:

[peacebird]

2. Wilkes is also tied to Virgil Goode - may Foggo's indictment cause Goode to squirm

[cascadiance]

13. I think that Goode is more tied to MZM, as is Katherine Harris

Those two and Randy Duke Cunningham were the three largest recipients of campaign financing dollars given out by MZM.

[Kagemusha]

3. These are the rushed indictments before the US attorney has to go?

One of those removed by Bush for political purposes?

[gratuitous]

5. Probably

But the sudden replacement of Karen Lam as U.S. Attorney for that district has nothing to do with this. Nothing, I tell you! And Arlen Specter's self-writing legislation enabling the Bush administration to do this without Senate oversight is just a coincidence. A series of totally unrelated happenings. Sure, you conspiracy theorists can concoct a lot of imaginary connections, but there's nothing to see here at all.

[Turbineguy]

4. Stock tip:

"Back up the truck" as Jimmy Cramer would say, for JNJ, makers of KY personal lubricant.

[La_Fourmi_Rouge]

6. On CNN now... n/t

[maddezmom]

7. Yup just saw the big yellow breaking news banner

A former third-ranking official in the CIA, Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, is expected to be indicted in San Diego today in an ongoing investigation into public corruption and defense contracts, according to two sources familiar with the case.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/02/13/tuesday/index.html?section=cnn_latest

[Hissyspit]

8. Ex-CIA Official May Face Charges ("Dusty" Foggo in Cunningham Bribery Scandal)

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CONGRESSMAN_BRIBERY?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US

Feb 13, 1:06 PM EST

Ex-CIA Official May Face Charges

By ALLISON HOFFMAN
Associated Press Writer

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A federal grand jury met Tuesday to consider indictments against a former top CIA official and a defense contractor linked to the bribery scandal that sent former U.S. Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham to prison.

Prosecutors are seeking charges of honest services fraud and conspiracy against Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, the No. 3 official at the CIA until his resignation in May, and San Diego defense contractor Brent Wilkes, two government officials familiar with the investigation told The Associated Press.

Both officials spoke only on condition of anonymity because grand jury proceedings are secret.

One official confirmed the grand jury reconvened Tuesday morning to consider claims that Foggo joined Wilkes on trips to Hawaii and Scotland and was introduced to Wilkes' employees as early as 2003 as a "future executive" of Wilkes Corp., which allegedly received $12 million in illicit contracts from various government agencies.

[Independent_Liberal]

9. Foggo and Wilkes down. Who's next?

Cheney
Hastert
Mehlman
Norton
Blunt
Doolittle
Bilbray
Burns
Hayworth
Renzi
Pombo
Sweeney
Cantor
Rohrabacher
Cornyn
Frist
Goode
Harris
Hunter
Gohmert
Lewis
Hadley
Feith
Perle
Wolfowitz
Gonzales
Rove

[cascadiance]

15. Add the CIFA bastards David Burtt and Joseph Hefferon to this list...

They were building a big database of anti-war protestors at the Counter Intelligence Field Activity Unit and both were in charge and abruptly resigned simultaneously a few months ago. They were being investigated under the MZM mess with Cunningham too...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/09/AR2006080901700.html

Don't forget Porter Goss either.

[Botany]

10. Hmmmmmm

And for $400.00 and control of the board
what is the question for this answer?

The Dept. of Justice Firing many federal prosecutors.

Alex?

Yes Mr./Ms. DUer

Name one of the crimes of the bush Administration that would
be considered obstruction of justice in the CIA / Bribes / Limos
Hookers / Hotel Rooms / Fraud / Duke Cunningham / kickback
scandal.

[Joanie Baloney]

11. Grand jury to indict Wilkes, Foggo [San Diego Union-Tribune]

Grand jury to indict Wilkes, Foggo

SAN DIEGO – A federal grand jury is expected Tuesday morning to issue indictments against Poway defense contractor Brent Wilkes and former high-ranking CIA official Kyle “Dusty” Foggo, childhood friends from San Diego who are embroiled in the Randy “Duke” Cunningham congressional corruption scandal.
The U.S. Attorney's office wouldn't comment on the matter, but has scheduled a midday news conference. The two men are expected to surrender at an arraignment in federal court Wednesday or Thursday.


Sources have told The San Diego Union-Tribune that Wilkes and Foggo could be charged with fraud and conspiracy in connection with a contract to supply bottled water to CIA operatives in Iraq.
Foggo quit his CIA post as No. 3 at the agency after his office wasraided by San Diego-based federal agents. He is expected to travel to San Diego from the East Coast to face charges.

Wilkes was a big contributor to Republican lawmakers. He developed a series of companies that specialized in landing federal contracts.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/cunningham/20070213-1014-bn13indict.html

Stay tuned for midday fun!!

:popcorn:

[Warpy]

12. Wilkes? Hooray! At last!

That's the boy they were trying to protect when they purged all the investigators and attorneys last month, replacing them with GOPs they thought would be loyal to Stupid.

He's the military contractor who was awarded fat DOD contracts for dummy operations so the money could be laundered back into RNC and right wing PAC contributions, and he is most probably not the only one.

He's the tip of the iceberg into just what an interstate racketeering operation the RNC has set up to keep itself in power.

Honest investigation will show all sorts of people Wilkes is tied to at the highest levels of the RNC, the DOD, and the White House.

[MindPilot]

20. And now ladies and gentlemen, your next big-name scandal...

Bottled Watergate!!! (sometimes I just crack me up)

And with this month's Vanity Fair expose of another San Diego-based government contract generation firm, SAIC (the thread about which is available for your perusal here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=197660&mesg_id=197660 )

we may be on the cusp of seeing this whole thing bust wide open. But I've said that before.


Edit to fix link and spelling

[here_is_to_hope]

14. Whoo Hoo!

to the greatest with ya!

[cascadiance]

16. Another co-conspirator in the Dukestir case, John T. Michael, was also charged today...

According to the Chicago Sun Times. Hadn't heard him mentioned much before. Anyone else study his role in this?

http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/254887,cia021307.article

[Warpy]

18. There's not much out there.

John T. Michael, owner of a mortgage company in New York, helped Thomas Kontogiannis bribe Duke Cunningham, according to Cunningham's plea, where he appeared as "Coconspirator #4".

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/grandolddocket.php

[cascadiance]

19. Makes you wonder if he's "cut a deal" as an informant...

... which might explain his early indictment now. Perhaps he's more willing to spill the beans on others that allowed him to get nailed now. I have a feeling Carol Lam's hand was forced on getting Foggo and Wilkes so that these fish didn't get away after being "cooked" for so long...

[Eugene]

17. Update: Former CIA official, contractor indicted - AP

Former CIA official, contractor indicted

By ALLISON HOFFMAN, Associated Press Writer

17 minutes ago

SAN DIEGO - The CIA's former No. 3 official and a defense contractor were charged Tuesday
with fraud and other offenses in the corruption investigation that sent former Rep. Randy
"Duke" Cunningham to prison, The Associated Press has learned.

Federal indictments named Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, executive director of the CIA until he resigned
in May, and his close friend, San Diego defense contractor Brent Wilkes, both 52, according
to two government officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because grand jury proceedings
are secret.

In a separate indictment, Wilkes was charged with conspiring to bribe Cunningham in return
for government contracts. A man who was described as a co-conspirator in Cunningham's 2005
plea agreement, John T. Michael, was also charged.

-snip-

Full article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070213/ap_on_re_us/congressman_bribery

[Doondoo]

21. K&R