boo effin hoo. Let's hold a cookie sale for the crook to pay his legal fees.

Now, to turn him and get a few more corrupt folks indicted. Assuming the DOJ permits it, given their political leadership.

boom shaka laka

Any chance Bush disagrees with this verdict and gives him a pardon?

any statement from mark geragos yet?

Wonder if he will have his sentence commuted as well.

Things are gonna be difficult for Wilkes at the sentencing hearing. Someone commented that he would sing if he was convicted. I doubt that (although I hope I am wrong). The time to sing is before you take the stand and give testimony that is implausible and is likely to cause the government to ask for a longer sentence if you are convicted.

Which makes me wonder why he did not want to sing. Is there someone out there behind the scene sending signals to Wilkes that he will be "helped out" once he gets out of jail?

pgs, the cow was fine

Here is an update from channel 10 news station:

Wilkes, 53, wearing a dark gray suit, sat stone faced and then shook his head slightly as jurors return their verdict.
His attorney, Mark Geragos, said he and Wilkes were shocked.
"I don't believe this case was proved beyond a reasonable doubt," Geragos said outside court. "Obviously I'm very disappointed. I think he shares the confidence that we'll get it reversed."

Does this mean an appeal?

Channel 10 has this comment from the jury foreperson:

The foreperson of the jury, Aisha Smith-Kruck, said after the verdicts were read that the jury would have liked to heard form Cunningham but reached the guilty verdict by reviewing all the evidence.
Smith-Kruck said Wilkes did not seem honest when he testified in his own defense. She said a $525,000 payment that Wilkes made to a mortgage company could not be explained as anything other than a bribe.

Geragos seems to be a worthless attorney, ya think?

"I think he shares the confidence that we'll get it reversed."

I think it more likely he's downed a fifth of the most expensive scotch in the world by now and is screeching like a stuck pig in his favorite room in his big ol' mansion on the hill.

Has Geragos ever WON a case? Whenever I hear he's hired on to one, I always bet against. Doesn't matter what case. I'm counting on him to help me buy my first Mercedes.

Seriously, I think Geragos represents that category of lawyer who feel like they haven't really accomplished anything if the get an innocent man off, but if they get an acquittal for a guy they KNOW is guilty, then that proves what a great lawyer they are. I became aware of this category only when one of my law school professors informed me that he belonged in it. Most actual lawyers, however, won't touch a case unless they think it will be an easy win. So, guys like Geragos have their place.

I can't see the White House getting involved, this is to far downstream for them to care.

Geragos struck out when he chose to represent, basically for free, Scott Peterson.

Slimy, smarmy, profoundly idiotic defense attorney Mark 'Dumbass' Geragos has just lost another case. What's the word on the street Mark?...

"His attorney, Mark Geragos, said he and Wilkes were shocked.

"I don't believe this case was proved beyond a reasonable doubt," Geragos said outside court. "Obviously I'm very disappointed. I think he shares the confidence that we'll get it reversed."

Geragos is shocked, SHOCKED! Do you think maybe he has his head up his ass? or is he just posturing since he's the archetypal "slimeball" defense attorney.
Wilkes was an idiot for bribing Cunningham but his stupidity may have been surpassed by retaining Geragos.
The chance of getting a reversal, about as likely as Larry Craig!

So... we have the $600,000 in bribes.... and $80 million in illegally gotten public funds.

Wouldn't the appropriate action to take include forfeiture of $80 million? Perhaps all property, business assets, outstanding loans given to 3rd parties... etc.

Of course, things are done diffrerently in Washington, where "We the People" will ALWAYS lose... that money will remain in the hands of the crooks... IMHO

Someone named "Paulie" is now making up stuff about someone named "Wilkes" and trying to blame the media for not covering it. Gosh, isn't it obvious? This Wilkes person just doesn't exist and all these posters and the TPM folks are stark raving mad.

Yup. I can't find one MSM story on Wilkes. I'm sure he'll be buried in a two paragraph note on page 17 of a few papers tomorrow and the next day but NO mainstream coverage will assure that none of the little papers/stations will carry anything at all. Amazing. Ya know, Atrios, I think this is right, recently said that he started his blog because he didn't recognize the world he saw on TV and he wanted to make sure he wasn't crazy by documenting, correcting, and commenting what was on TV. Stuff like the missing Wilkes stories throws me for a loop. How could it possibly be important if _no one_ is paying attention? Confusing that.

What? Ted and Ben Stevens didn't get a cut?
We have hookers in Alaska Corruption just hasn't hit the news yet

Please, stop seeking news from the teevee. They are incapable of providing anything other than entertainment. The sooner we boycott television and radio "news" broadcasting stations, the sooner they will get the message that Americans are sick and tired of their attempts to politicize issues. Nor do we have any intention of wasting our time watching useless anti-intellectual entertainment under the guise that it is news. (--- Yes, you can still watch PBS.)

Its been three years since I've watched television news or listened to the radio. But it is the networks that I hold personally responsible for creating the divisive atmosphere that has infected our country. I think media conglomerations are criminally negligent for broadcasting their subversive insidious attacks at over half of America's electorate for our democratic beliefs and liberal values. --- After all, we have a hell of a lot more morality and higher principles than their intolerant, malevolent, racist, and hateful far right Christian fundamentalist pundits.

Nevertheless, tis far better to seek news information from the Internet. --- And if that is also destroyed then we destroy anti-net neutrality providers by turning off our computers for good. --- Of course, we'll remain un-blissfully ignorant and no longer have the ability to email one another but it is imperative that we do this as individuals. It is the only way America's media oligopoly --- and all corporations will ever understand; that it's not financially feasible to dumb-down the masses. FWIW.

This is enough to give Wilkes a bad case of triscadecaphobia...

Just maybe he'll get that many years in the federal pokey.