Attorney for Wilkes wants trial dismissed: CAROL LAM'S INVESTIGATION

[MagickMuffin]

Source: San Diego Union Tribune

A lawyer for former Poway defense contractor Brent Wilkes told a judge yesterday “there is no way” his client will plead guilty to charges stemming from the Randy “Duke” Cunningham bribery scandal.

The lawyer, Mark Geragos, also said he planned to seek dismissal of the case because he has reason to believe former U.S. Attorney Carol Lam may have leaked secret grand jury documents to the media.

During a hearing yesterday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Phillip Halpern acknowledged unfortunate leaks but was measured in his response. “There's a big difference between rhetoric and actual facts,” he told the judge. “We look forward to Mr. Geragos' filing.”
Geragos contended that Lam wanted the indictments to happen before she was forced from office by the Bush administration. But Lam was meeting resistance from bosses in the Justice Department, who had rejected drafts of indictments against Wilkes and former CIA official Kyle “Dusty” Foggo, saying they needed revisions.

Read more: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20070403-9999-1m3wilkes.html

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I searched around for this and didn't see anything posted

This is looking more and more like Carol Lam was FIRED for doing her job and the Regime didn't like that very much...

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[aquart]

1. We KNOW it.

But there's a difference between knowing and proving. I think we can prove it, too.

[musette_sf]

2. where slime goes

Geragos follows...

Wilkes is in good company with his fellow Geragos clients, Michael Jackson and Scotty Peterson.

[Warpy]

3. This was a huge money laundering scam

Fat DOD contracts were going to dummy corporations held by Wilkes and Mitchell Wade. They did nothing for the DOD, but that taxpayer money was laundered through these fake outfits and turned into bribes and kickbacks all around plus handsome contributions to the RNC, GOP candidates, and pro GOP PACs.

This is why Lam was fired. Cunningham got really clumsy and caught the attention of people outside the scam. Lam started to follow the money and threatened to shut down the money laundering gravy train.

This was not about small payoffs, boats, or parties with hookers. It was about taxpayer money being robbed, laundered, and distributed among a bunch of well placed cronies.

It's our money, folks. Our only hope now is that Congress picks up where Lam left off.

[sam sarrha]

5. "..money laundered thur fake outfits.." ya mean like the Vice pResidents office..???

[The Doctor.]

14. Good one. nt

[krkaufman]

30. Would love to see Congress hire Lam to lead that investigation.

At least as a consultant, if not to lead it.

[global1]

4. Could This All Been Part Of A KKKarl Rove Master Plan?.......

Fire the USA's that were in the process of indicting Repugs and doing their job.

Let the Dems hold hearings.

Leak some info appropriate to the cases.

Claim that this leaking was a breach and that these cases should be thrown out or dismissed.

Repugs go scott free.


Just a thought - that this could all have fallen into place because Rove thinks 3 steps ahead of everybody.

Any thoughts?

[MagickMuffin]

6. My thoughts about this are this:

this is a MULTI-PRONGED approach to several factors that SERVE at the Pleasure of the Corrupt GOP/RNC power players aka GANGTAS.

One FIRE ALL USA's who are not Loyal Bushies.

Replace the Fired USA's with Loyal Bushies.

Equals a STOLEN ELECTION IN '08, and between now and then more of the corrupt charges will be dropped.

My only hope is there are far more USA's who will stand up to the politicization of the Justice Department.

I also think the Democratic Party needs to move fast and replace the interim attorneys before the '08 elections. Otherwise I fear will see a repeat of 2000, only nastier....

[MissWaverly]

10. not likely, like the FBI did something wrong 157,000 times

okay, say the Congress did hold a hearing, information is going to be leaked on all
157,000 illegal incidents, not. The same way with the this, the scope is too huge,
remember after all the media splash of Watergate, Halderman still had to face the
music and Chuck Colson as well.

[Scriptor Ignotus]

20. Rove is a very smart, very devious man

but he is not behind EVERY shady thing in the Bush Administration.

There are legions of other people loyal to this President ready willing and able to do those shady things themselves.

[krkaufman]

31. It's not that complicated.

Rove's plan was simply to remove anyone not a "loyal Bushie," to quash investigations against Rethugs (Wilkes, big tobacco, Marianas/Abramoff, etc) and to instigate and trumpet trumped-up investigations into Democrats and voter "fraud." It's likely that he really didn't expect to lose Congress, so didn't think anything would ever get investigated.

[rodeodance]

7. IRRESPONSIBLE!! toss Bush's favorate word back at him!

[Capn Sunshine]

8. It's not the actual case that worries them

It's if Wilkes or Foggo roll over; then the tentacles of this thing go deep and wide, and maybe even up the food chain.

Write or call your congresspeople and Senators to keep this above ground!

[williesgirl]

9. k&r

[grannylib]

11. Yeppers, she sure was, and for reasons listed by previous posters.

This is ALL about a 'permanent rePiglican majority' (and I can't tell you how that phrase makes my blood run cold) :scared:
It's a plan that was set in motion back in the Nixon WH (and a plan that was ignored/covered up by the investigation into the Watergate burglary) when Cheney the Dick and Ronald McDumsfeld were there and getting started on their careers of corruption.
Lam was uncovering the dummy corporations and the payoff/kickback scams and the money trail that was leading to another stolen election in 2008, and for some odd reason :sarcasm: the ruling Reich-wing BushCo regime was not all too keen on that coming out.

Uh, guys? It's a little late for that. We KNOW. Many of us have known for a LONG TIME what filthy pieces of shit you are. And now, anyone with functioning brain cells, who may have been temporarily brainwashed by your propaganda, is starting to wake up to that fact as well.

You're TOAST.

[wordpix]

27. that's the way I see it, too, Grannylib but these repukes have dirty tricks up sleeves & they won't

quietly. Things could get as hot as the Vietnam years if some of them don't get the justice they deserve, i.e. go to jail, fined for $ to be returned to the Treasury, etc.

[grannylib]

28. I'd like to see ALL their assets siezed and the money returned to the Treasury

then sentence every last one of these fuckers to a lifetime of honest labor at today's minimum wage.

[krkaufman]

32. Sadly, it's not too late. The Wilkes and Foggo investigations...

... aren't progressing as they once were, and only time will tell if the replacement USAs will have the stones to take the investigations wherever they lead.

[fooj]

12. That f*cking slimebag Geragos!

This truly pisses me off.

[lovuian]

13. Bingo

She was getting to close

[ProudDad]

15. Remember, she was going after

jerry lewis (R-CA)

[Raksha]

16. I remember...but thanks for informing those who might not know

or who knew but may have forgotten about it.

[19jet54]

17. Waste, Fraud & Abuse

Public Waxman hearings can focus the press, and voter attention on these issues - It is hard to "rig" 90% of the vote.

[Canuckistanian]

18. Mission Accomplished

And Wilkes will get off scot free.

On the plus side, Abramoff will have no more bargaining chips when he attempts a sentence reduction.

[kiteinthewind]

19. Kick! nt

:kick:

[mikelgb]

21. plot thickens

[redqueen]

22. I really hope they don't get away with this...

unless they can prove it was Lam who did the leaking, there's no reason to dismiss the case.

This is too important to let it fall by the wayside... surely every judge in America who's not playing ball knows that.

[EVDebs]

23. The CIA/GOP $ connection = The Octopus that Casolaro and Webb investigated

and were treated harshly for for doing so

"It's all part of a growing ongoing investigation into corruption in defense and intelligence contracts, which already has sent former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham to prison and, legal sources say, may threaten others in Congress and the CIA."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12634250/

Let's see, Goss and Foggo are out and now we're finding that Cunningham may not be alone...Any wonder the GOP is shaking in their boots?

[Supersedeas]

24. RESISTANCE from bosses in the Justice Department--ya don't say.

[Bitwit1234]

25. So maybe Leahy will tell them they are reviewing that investigation

And they are going to assign an attorney to prosecute it, if necessary.

There had to be evidence against him. And how about representative Jerry Lewis, that investigation has been dropped also. I suppose if you are republican, you expect to be let off...heck look at the oxy popper rush...what did they do to him. And I have not heard one word about the three felonies that they have against coulter.

[loudsue]

26. We may have to send e-mails & call for that investigation to happen.

Our congresscritters need all the support they can get.

:kick::kick::kick:

[KansDem]

35. "the three felonies that they have against coulter"

I know of fraudulent voter registration, or voting in the wrong precinct. What are the other two? I'm not doubting you but would like to know, as I think this would be an excellent rebuttal to the "media is liberal" myth propagated by right-wingers.

Rush certainly has enjoyed most-favored status: first he is caught with a trunk-full of oxycontin, then he is stopped at customs coming in from the DR with viagra-not-his-own. That's some "liburl media."

[grasswire]

29. isn't this obstruction of justice by DoJ?

Heckuva job, Gonzo!

[depakid]

33. Possibly

Which is all the more reason to subpoena Rove & Meiers... and then charge them with contempt if they refuse to appear.

[halobeam]

34. okay I can't rec but I can kick!

[johnlal]

36. Law and Order republicans

Here we have it: The US Attorney was being resisted by her higher-ups. To run out time on Lam's clock, they rejected indictments against criminals who could embarrass the administration, while trying to get Lam fired. With the legitimate channels of law and order broken, Lam had to leak information to the media in order to get the Justice Department to act. This has jeopardized the case, or at least complicated it. How can the republicans possibly claim to be the party of law and order?