WILKES CONVICTED ON ALL 13 COUNTS! STOLE $90 MIL IN DoD EARMARKS w/DUKESTER! CALL GIRLS IN COURT! [View All]

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DUKE CUNNINGHAM--MOST CORRUPT EVER & WILKES AFTER CONVICTION ON ALL 13 COUNTS

The GOP is bar none the most corrupt political party in all of American history. $700 million in total at least was funneled through the corrupt Defense Appropriations Committee, headed by Jerry Lewis and Duke Cunningham. A lot of that loot went right back to GOP TV ads. Between not being able to rob the US Treasury and no more Abramoff, the GOP is HURTING for $$!

What do you think of this:

SAN DIEGO – Brent Wilkes was convicted Monday of 13 felonies for bribing former congressman Randy “Duke” Cunningham with expensive meals, trips, a yacht and mortgage payments for his Rancho Santa Fe mansion in exchange for lucrative government defense contracts.

The 53-year-old Poway defense contractor faces at least 20 years in prison.

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The verdict ended a three-week-long trial that was awash in bureaucratic acronyms like GDIC and FIRES, and the minutia of congressional budgets. It was also punctuated by eye-popping revelations of $4,000 dinners at Las Vegas resorts, a stay in a $6,600-per-night Hawaiian suite and the salacious appearance of two prostitutes who said they were hired to have sex with Wilkes and Cunningham.

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A central part of that culture is the process of earmarks – where representatives insert money into budgets for programs with no oversight. That was a key component of the trial, with the government alleging Wilkes plied Cunningham to get earmarks into the Pentagon budget and then lean on bureaucrats to steer contracts to his company.

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Two prostitutes also testified that they were hired to have sex with the congressman and Wilkes during a trip to Hawaii. One picked Cunningham out of a photo lineup shown to the jury. Joel Combs, a nephew of Wilkes and key government witness who testified under immunity, said his uncle gave him money and told him to hire the women.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/cunningham/20071105-1344-bn05wilkes2.html

Here are my earlier Threads on this:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=408673

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=417354


Please recommend to fight the media blackout we will mostly see on this!