Brent Wilkes Convicted of 13 Federal Charges

[maddezmom]

Source: FOX6

Former defense contractor Brent Wilkes was convicted today of 13 federal charges for bribing disgraced ex-congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham with cash, gifts, meals and prostitutes.

Wilkes, 53, was found guilty of conspiracy, honest services wire fraud, bribery of a public official and money laundering. He faces up to 20 years in prison.

Read more: http://www.fox6.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=1232a82f-e3be-4290-9de5-4a39ff12c6f4&rss=800

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Contractor convicted of bribing Cunningham
From the Associated Press
12:26 PM PST, November 5, 2007
SAN DIEGO -- A defense contractor was found guilty today on all counts of bribing former San Diego Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham in what has been the only trial to emerge from the nation's biggest Congressional corruption scandal.

Brent Wilkes was convicted of 13 counts of conspiracy, bribery, money laundering and wire fraud. He faces up to 20 years in prison.

Wilkes, 53, had steadfastly maintained his innocence since being charged in February.

In three weeks of trial, prosecutors called former Cunningham staffers, a waiter and even two prostitutes to support accusations that Wilkes gave the congressman more than $700,000 in cash payments, meals, trips and other gifts. In return, he got help winning nearly $90 million in Pentagon contracts, mainly for scanning paper documents, according to prosecutors.

more:http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-ex-bribery6nov06,1,1522651.story?track=rss

[SpiralHawk]

1. Another corrupt republicon homelander crony. There are sooooo many.

Lock all the criminal homelander republicons up, to keep America safe from lying, stealing, treasonous Homelanders.

[TomInTib]

2. Songbird time.

This is precious.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

8. pick a tune, any tune, and sing it loud, sing it to the man.

heheheheheh!

one small bright spot for man, one huge conviction for mankind.

[atreides1]

3. Gregaros isn't really that good is he?

First Scott Peterson and now Brent Wilkes!

[mod mom]

4. Wasn't these thugs the reason they fired USA Carol Lam?

[BrotherBuzz]

10. Yes, and a weak plausible no.

John Doolittle started spreading the cover up story for the firing of US Atty Carol Lam by saying at his public appearances the #1 problem facing this country was illegal immigration, which we now know is code for white supremest appeal to the Republican base, and supposedly was the reason that Carol Lam was fired, because of her supposedly not prosecuting those types of cases, which we now know is a crock. Carol Lam indicted Brent Wilkes (and Dusty Foggo, CIA) on her last day in office.

Dolittle and his wife, Julie. are both involved in the cover up

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:hLZlOiDPNpkJ:www.dailykos.com/story/2007/5/23/2918/09544+Carol+Lam+doolittle&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=us

[Supersedeas]

13. it was Foggo and her investigation beyond that which lead to her demise

[DrBlix]

16. Dusty Foggo, they were about to get into the DC prostitues

Suddenly Porter Goss resigns.....Dolittle, Louis etal let's not forget Duncan Hunter all on the take. Lam gets bounced Geragos tries to have the charges against Wilkes dismissed fails. Now that he has been convicted perhaps he will start blabbing to reduce his sentence.

[hootinholler]

15. Nope that was Jerry Lewis.

But it did slow this down a bit too.

-Hoot

[Judi Lynn]

5. Stupendous! Thank you. This is a big step forward. n/t

[msongs]

6. so what other people will he legitimately implicate to reduce his sentence? lots of em! nt

[Hieronymus]

7. Another one bites the dust.

[flyarm]

9. no do they dangle time off for good info?? on other rethug congress critters??

so he hasn't been sentenced..will his lawyer let him sing for time off of that 20 year prison term..those boys Like Wilkes don't do good in prison..even the country club prisons...

fly

[TomInTib]

11. Time and leniency.

He'll be singing harmony with Abramoff.

And I'll just bet the Dukester trilled out a stream of info on this one as well.

[flyarm]

12. oh yeah the Dukester sang like a canary..this one will too!! eom

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