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Foggo's Road Rage ... Plus: Your Help Needed!

There are certainly more important revelations contained in the trove of court documents filed yesterday in connection with the sentencing of former CIA Number 3 Dusty Foggo, who pleaded guilty in the Duke Cunningham bribery scandal. Indeed, Pro Publica's Marcus Stern has already picked out some key ones.

But this excerpt from the government's sentencing memo certainly sheds some light on what kind of a guy Foggo was:

In 1989, while stationed overseas, Foggo stopped his car in front of a bicycle bypass. One frustrated passing cyclist slapped the trunk of Foggo's car. After the two exchanged words, Foggo responded by knocking him off his bike and punching him in the face. Then, much as he would later lie to others at the CIA about the "cigar bar" cover story for him and JC, Foggo concocted a story that local police officers had fabricated the entire incident as payback for Foggo's having spurned their efforts to solicit a bribe from him. Foggo's superiors and the local officials considered his explanation to be "unrealistic and implausible." Foggo's chief of station was convinced that Foggo was lying to him. Foggo's assault on one of its citizens so outraged that nation that officials there filed a Diplomatic Protest with the U.S. Ambassador.

We've got a feeling there's plenty more like that out there. But as always with this stuff, we could use your help. So take a look through the court documents, and let us know, in comments or emails, what else is in there...

The government's sentencing memo and its appendix are here and here. Prosecutors' response to Foggo's sentencing memo is here.

Happy hunting!


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And, just to let you know, I'll be looking closely at comments to see what people are finding -- thanks for the help!

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Dusty was a dick. Guy calls him on it. Words exchanged. Punches thrown.

Huge cover story developed to explain away charges. International incedent.

My problem is that he rose to number two or whatever, how many more are out there. I am sure that a significant majority people in the agency are dedicated committed professionals. But with the ability to step all over laws that they have, every bad apple is intensely magnified.

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Knocking a guy off his bike and punching him in the face? That's assault AND BATTERY.

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This sounds like quite the party:

After Wilkes paid over $88,000 for vacation in Scotland for the Wilkes and Foggo families, Foggo sent Wilkes an email titled “Scotland and cigars,” reassuring him, “I want to insure that Bconnection is not forgotten ....Group W is in this deal.” Appx. 80. That trip cost Wilkes $12,000 in private jet flights; over $4,000 for a helicopter ride for Foggo and Wilkes to play a round of golf at Carnoustie; over $1,400 for a private bag-piper, magician, Scottish dancers, and band; $400 in tickets to the Lion King musical; and over $44,000 for a stay at the Pitcastle estate, which offered trout fishing on hill lochs, salmon fishing on the River Tay, clay pigeon shooting, archery, and a seven-person staff. Appx. 44

Something about "private bag-piper" just sounds dirty.

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Dusty Foggo and Allen Stanford: separated at birth???

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I love this part:

p. 51 (52 pdf)
"John Doe #5 took over Foggo's position In the Overseas Location. Foggo encouraged John Doe #5 to get in touch with two contractors: one was Contractor X, and the other was J.C., whom Foggo described as the man in charge of Archer Logistics. Foggo strongly endorsed J.C., calling him a "real patriot," indicated that he thought J.C. could be of service to John Doe #5 in carrying out the Agency's mission, and made clear that he wanted to maintain the relationship with J.C."

Yeah, a couple 'real patriots' conspiring to screw over the government (and fellow Americans) for a few grand.

The fact that it's the #3 man in the CIA, and that all it took was a few of trips and less than a few million for the guy to totally sell himself and everyone else out, is very disturbing.

'real patriots' indeed.

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Not sure if it was Raw Story or HuffPo that had a link. This may not help Zach advance NEW stories, but the gist of it:

Foggo stationed overseas with family. Foggo get's promotion, requires him at Langley. Foggos family stays overseas, but Foggo gets his mistress (only identified by initials ER) transferred to a Langley job...even tho she has shaky credentials and poor work history. She is transferred to Langley, over the objections of Langley staff, the whole job placement STRONGLY pushed by Foggo, placed under a highly decorated CIA lifer, and proceeds to not do her job. When her poor performance earns her demerits, she not only doesn't shape up and do better, she flaunts her connection with Foggo to her supervisor and ends up getting the Career CIA supervisor fired - directly fired by Foggo.

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Not sure if this is generally known already, but from randomly scrolling the appendix:

Pgs 33-40: Foggo pressures the OGC to hire a woman he was having an affair with and apparently intended to marry - a woman who already had a black mark on her record for sleeping with a supervisor. Foggo tells the woman at the OGC looking over her record that she got "a raw deal" because "she never even f***** him."

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I saw Foggo's email in the PDF files (dustmannnn@aol.com) and googled it. Not much there... but an AOL picture gallery with slideshow. Note the workshop "cigar room" photo.

http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:J6IcJzjM5w8J:pictures.aol.com/galleries/dustmannnn+dustmannnn&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us&client=safari

Slideshow here:

http://pictures.aol.com/ap/publicSlideshow.do?shareInfo=1uXYxRKKm4QgXEDmyu0Ea1jWO4mdR9CLvB6KjY8WE5eJJdNX5w59hg%3D%3D


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Good find, hugohs! I'll bet the address of Dusty's house is ascertainable from some of those pictures, and the purchase (and sale - it looks like Dusty was selling) data might be ve-ly interestink!

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Narragansett Pl & McArthur Avenue, Vienna VA 22180.

I can't quite make out the street numbers but it's in the 700 block. The Google satellite pics definitely match (check orientation of driveways, rooflines of neighbors houses, etc.) - it's the house on the west side of McArthur Ave. mid block between Narragansett Pl. and Rockport Rd.

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708 MacArthur Ave NE.

Fairfax county tax records (look up by the map number below) show the following sales info:
0381 17 0011 708 MACARTHUR AVE NE Split Foyer B 1968 06/16/2008 $530,000 No Transfer of convenience


The current owners are named Mahr. That definitely was Foggo in the "cigar room"; he must have been selling. Or something. Anyone know what a "transfer of convenience" is?

http://icare.fairfaxcounty.gov/Forms/MapDatalet.aspx?taxyear=2010&ownseq=1&roll=REAL&jur=&sIndex=4&idx=1&LMparent=138

(I had to click on "neighborhood sales" to get the sales info above after finding the individual property record.)

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Good stuff, NP1! Looks like you have to pay for a subscription to view their property records online (under the Circuit Court) - maybe TPM already has that subscription or can access it thru a 3rd party. Might be worth it, it might not.

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Wouldn't Foggo had to have a superior running interference for him to advance as he did? A**holes don't normally get promoted. Who was/were his sugar daddy protectors.

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Even though I am overwhelmed by the extraordinary superb and excellent abundant amount of concerns and information TPM Muckraker, I thought as Mr. Roth has requested responses, I though I would or should try to assist with to some extent abstract related concerns.

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"Brevity is the soul of wit" Polonius

Polonius, alas, failed to follow this advice as well.

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Having worked briefly in military procurement, I’ll ask an obvious question: How did Kyle “Dusty” Foggo ever think he’d get away with unconcealed corruption in military contracting, over which there are, believe it or not, some watchdog laws? Talk about the Foggo of War! He seems to have been suffering not so much from moral turpitude as mental turpitude. Only an idiot or a nutcase or some combination thereof would’ve pushed the self-dealing as far as he did.

Someone asked if Foggo “had to have a superior running interference for him to advance as he did.” Here’s how John Doe #2, a Foggo supervisor at the CIA, described him: “Mr. Foggo, in my experience, is a charming and glib ‘people person,’ who has the ability to connect with people and win them over. He was sycophantic in his dealings with his superiors, always trying to curry favor with his higher-ups. Was not surprised when I learned of his guilty plea. I knew Mr. Foggo was a person who was seriously flawed, ethically and morally, who would cut corners to achieve his aims.” Foggo sounds like a classic psychopath, in other words: charming, conscienceless, and, ultimately, clueless.

Here’s an interesting vignette from the Appendix to the Government’s Sentencing Memorandum (foggo_139_2.pdf). Embroiling himself in a scheme in 2004 to help his friend Brent Wilkes get a multimillion dollar contract to sell water to the government, Foggo erupted in a fury when Wilkes’s nephew J.C., the nominal head of Archer Defense (Wilkes's company), accidentally delivered a pallet of water from France. “Mr. Foggo was adamant about not wanting water, or anything else, from France. Archer replaced the pallet with non-French water.” According to a later entry, Wilkes’s company “marked up by 60% the price of the water that it sold to the CIA's Overseas Station.”

So Foggo and Wilkes were corrupt, but at least they weren’t Francophiles. That must be very comforting to today's GOP.

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I'll try to get the page references and quotes but Porter Goss seems to play an enabling role here. To wit:
Jane Doe #3 "I advised Mr. Foggo that his status should change to accurately reflect hls uslanment in the Unltcc1 States. Mr. Foggo
challenged this guidance and the challenge culminated in him receiving from the Director of Central Inntelligence (DCI) in late December 2004".

There are other examples.

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That's all they got on this guy?? Something seriously smells here that they dropped all but one minor charge - for which he'll probably get less than 37 months.

Where's the stuff about the Shirlington Limousine, and the "escorts" and the poker parties with Dukester and Wilkes???

Get the impression here that Foggo was able to blackmail his way out of more serious charges.

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Again, it is not and/or was not my intent to offend anyone from my blog comment reply on this page.

If jollyroger, as it appears has been offended, I apologize and request that TPM Muckraker may and/or please immediately remove my blog comment replies within this Article.

Please note that I further and I unfortunately suspect that an interpretation of anti-whistleblower, anti-'Federal Employee Whistleblower Protection Restoration Enhancement Act' and basically with the emphasis of the (well known) 'Shoot the Messenger' implications are with the direct comment to me from jollyroger. Also, the comment from jollyroger appears to me to be offensive and/or unduly offensive to all and/or many other reasonable person(s).

Please note that I also highly agree to any reasonable reference that good use of a hopefully proper and forthright College Education is hopefully a substantial benefit to all.

Lastly, please note that there are an abundance of good people in our great country and that of the world that are in beneficial fields of employment and/or livelihoods and are the very foundation and backstop of our 'We the People' great countries and without college degrees that are within the Arts (Motion Picture and Television ecetra), Jewelry, Care Givers, Drivers, Volunteers, Vocational (peace corp, etcetra I presume), Food Service, Restaurant and Hotel Workers etcetra, many and/or most all Union Workers, Building Contractors, Pilots, Railroad Conductors, Fisherman, Farmers etcetra and the Enlisted and Formerly Drafted Enlisted Personnel in our US Armed Forces.

Again my apologies to jollyroger and my request that TPM Muckraker and Mr. Roth may remove my blog comment replies as it appears to be offensive to jollyroger and my concern for others as I perceive from the direct comment reply from jollyroger to my impromptu, frustrated and exasperated blog comment reply to just some of the concerns as expressed from the Mr. Roth TPM Muckraker request, in part, '.... Plus: Your help needed!.

If Mr. Roth and/or TPM Muckraker have any questions or concerns, please contact me at your earliest convenience.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

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Check out the appendix, page 60. It is one of several VERY detailed charts, describing all sorts of goodies Wilkes gave Foggo. It goes as far as detailing all known participants in all of the dinners. Now, take a look at the 5/16 - 2005 meal at the Capital Grille, Foggo's share of the tab is calculated as 1/4 "assuming DeLay and Lewis also dined in the bill". Must have been quite a scene...

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I see on the deposition by Wilkes nephew "JC", in the second appendix, page 22, para 5, where he talks about Foggo requesting a job support letter from Archer for some ne'er-do-well who overstayed a prior visa. This constitutes visa fraud, and as a CIA overseas employee, Foggo should have been briefed on the do's and don't's of visa referrals. Soliciting a false letter is way over the line.

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Further on the visa fraud, Dusty raises the issue in an e-mail to Wilkes in 30 March 2003 (page 74 of Appendix 2), trying to get Congressmen to weigh in on a letter to the INS.

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