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Foggo and Wilkes To Face Judge, Again
Kyle “Dusty” Foggo and Brent Wilkes head to federal court today where they will likely plead not guilty to new conspiracy and money laundering charges.
Indictments against the pair came Friday that expand the charges filed against them in February.
In addition to the old charges, in the new indictment, Foggo, former executive director of the CIA, is accused of slipping his lifelong friend, Wilkes, a $132 million federal contract to “provide commercial cover for CIA air operations.”
You can see the portion of Foggo’s indictment describing the scam here.
The indictment says Wilkes was patently unqualified to handle the task, seeing that he had no prior air-support experience.
How, then, did Wilkes get such a contract?
According to the indictment, Foggo had been funneling Wilkes classified government documents, despite Wilkes’ lack of security authorization, that seemed to prepare him for the pitch.
In exchange for Foggo’s cooperation, Wilkes took his pal on vacation to exotic locations like Hawaii and Scotland, offered Foggo rides in a private jet and treated him to fancy dinners at such restaurants as the Capital Grille (which recently won Consumer Reports’ award for the best hamburger in America). Judging by the $344.78 bill rang up by Foggo, he probably ordered something else.
Comments (10)
Anonymous wrote on May 14, 2007 5:27 PM:Kudos to Carol Lam for having the guts to initiate these proceedings despite the antagonism from Main Justice.
bobh wrote on May 14, 2007 5:29 PM:Has anyone here seen their correspondence with each other? It always struck me as vaguely homoerotic in nature. I wonder if there was a series of vacations together for reasons other than business.
bobh wrote on May 14, 2007 5:30 PM:and has anyone heard that mcnulty is 'out' at doj?
bobh wrote on May 14, 2007 5:36 PM:http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/cunningham/20070214-9999-1n14bios.html
Their whole relationship - some forty years of it...just screams...closer than friends.
Mrs Panstreppon wrote on May 14, 2007 5:36 PM:I think some people have recently been reading my TPM Cafe post about the Wilkes Foundation, "Brent Wilkes: Not So Charitable - Newsweek's Big Mistake" (link below). TPM MR might want to check out the traffic to see who it is.
http://yglesias.tpmcafe.com/blog/mrs_panstreppon/2006/jun/16/brent_wilkes_is_a_lying_weasel_and_cheap_to_boot
MLS wrote on May 14, 2007 6:00 PM:Where is the rest of the indictment?
Mrs Panstreppon wrote on May 14, 2007 10:26 PM:The San Diego Union-Tribune story refers to Thomas Michael being indicted. I think it is John T. Michael, nephew of Thomas Kontogiannis, who was indicted.
PJ White wrote on May 15, 2007 1:57 AM:Sounds like these two were in bed together, in both the literal and figurative senses.
sc: fact. And that's a fact.
Heil Mary wrote on May 15, 2007 4:47 AM:Somebody should grill forced-childbirth mafia moll Kay James who briefly took over one of these disgraced defense companies (MZM?), then fled after 2 weeks. Did she find out the whole point behind denying women control over their bodies is to keep defense contractors supplied with fresh cannon fodder and hookers?? The MOTHER-KILLING SHILL should be arrested also. She's an accessory to the cover-up. I spoke with the pious BITCH years ago to complain about my anti-choice family's child abuse, and she hung up on me.
Al in Austex wrote on May 15, 2007 5:26 AM:We all owe a special debt of gratitude & thanks to USA Lam and her career DOJ staffers that despite great opposition from the "Political Powers that Be " ,pressed on with the indictment of these criminals that would subvert our Rule of Law. We now need to discover how much involvement with this ponzi kickback scheme former Director Goss (aka Congressman porter Goss) had with Wilkes /Foggo .We also need to get details on this whole smelly enchilda of corruption that pertains to Bribed Congressman ,Bogus DOD contractors & (omg ) the OVP -Remember Wilkes -Mitchell had very questionable dealings with Cheney's office .
Is there any way to depose former USA Yang -the other attorney who resigned that was on the Bribed Congressman cases? Ms Yang went to work for the law firm of at least one of the defendants ?
TPM muck racker Rocks -keep up the good work .