Contractors’ Hooker Ring Lasted 15 YearsMore details this morning about the Brent Wilkes-Mitch Wade hooker ring, courtesy of the San Diego Union-Tribune:
Several of Wilkes’ former employees and business associates say he used the hospitality suites over the past 15 years to curry favor with lawmakers as well as officials with the CIA, where both Wilkes and Wade sought contracts.Wilkes hosted parties for lawmakers and periodic poker games that included CIA officials as well as members of the House Appropriations and Intelligence committees. Cunningham, who sat on both committees, was a frequent guest, according to some of the participants in the poker games.
And I’ll be darned: Kyle “Dusty” Foggo, now the executive director of the CIA, liked to come to those “parties.” The same ones now-CIA Director Porter Goss may have attended:
People who were present at the games said one of the regular players was Kyle Dustin “Dusty” Foggo, who has been Wilkes’ best friend since the two attended junior high school in Chula Vista in the late 1960s. In October, Foggo was named the CIA’s executive director — the agency’s third-highest position.
In fact, Foggo didn’t just attend, he occasionally hosted the parties at his Virginia home, the paper reports.
The SDUT has a couple other “names” of participants: Former Rep. Charlie Wilson (D-TX) says he was there, although he never stuck around for the prostitutes, he says. Others tell the paper a CIA agent was present known as “Nine Fingers” because, yes, he only had nine fingers.
Who else? More lawmakers? As Young Sherlock Holmes might say: The game is afoot.
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