TPMmuckraker is doing a bang-up job covering the corruption indictment of “Dusty” Foggo, formerly the CIA’s executive director until he resigned in May. Foggo was a close friend of defense contractor, Brent Wilkes.
One of the officials said the grand jury heard 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’ company, Wilkes Corp., which allegedly received $12 million in illicit contracts from various government agencies.
Wilkes was also charged with conspiring to bribe convicted former Congressman, Duke Cunningham. TPM Muckraker has entries here, here, here, here, and here. You can’t expect folks to just watch the torrent of “defense” money coming out of Washington without trying to get a little taste, can you? People are getting rich from these expenditures, and it’s not the troops in the field.
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