2 More Republicans Go Down in Duke Cunningham Case
Posted in H.L. News, Main Blog (All Posts) on February 14th, 2007 10:04 am by HL
Federal grand jury indicts Foggo, Wilkes
San Diego Tribune
Excerpt
SAN DIEGO – Poway defense contractor Brent Wilkes and former high-ranking CIA official Kyle “Dusty†Foggo, childhood friends from San Diego who got entangled in the Randy “Duke†Cunningham corruption scandal, were indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury.
U.S. Attorney Carol Lam announced the indictments at an afternoon press conference, calling the charges against the two men “breathtaking in scope.â€
The investigation began after a June 12, 2005, report by Copley News Service reporter Marcus Stern that detailed Cunningham’s sale of his Del Mar Heights home to a defense contractor for hundred of thousand of dollars more than it was worth.
Within nine months of that first report of corruption, Cunningham was convicted and jailed.
Court documents allege that Wilkes provided more than $700,000 to Cunningham in exchange for the former congressman corruptly influencing the appropriation of funds and the execution of government contracts to benefit Wilkes’ company, Poway-based ADCS Inc.
H.L.s Take
The dominos continue to fall, Republicans going down in corruption scandal after corruption scandal. This will continue for many years eventually culminating in the fall of ‘The House of Bush” (well that may be reaching). Randy Duke Cunningham is still sorry for stealing that Golden Toiliet though Here is a flashback from November 30, 2005 called Dukies Crying
