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

[Dems Will Win]

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.

...

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.

...

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.

...

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!

[Swamp Rat]

1. k&r

[Adsos Letter]

2. Corruption with defense contracts during time of war...

...I know that, historically, this kind of thing stretches back at least as far as our Civil War, but isn't it about time this became a treasonous act...especially when our infantryman are forced to work with messed up body armor (some of it, anyway) and underarmored humvees?

Get the freakin' rope...

[mopinko]

5. i agree with you, but

it goes back to chimpanzees, i suspect. or at least back to the invention of money.

[Adsos Letter]

10. Well...

...let us get a rope and hie ourselves over to the ol' hangin tree anyway...this shit has got to stop, if for no other reason than I am sick and tired of my tax money going to thieves...defense corruption just makes it worse, 'cause it endangers the lives of our kids.

:)

[mopinko]

11. right there with ya.

can we get a hemp rope, do ya think?

[Adsos Letter]

12. Give me a little time...

I would be glad to provide one derived from a very similar substance...

:D

[asdjrocky]

23. Me Too

I vote for hemp.

[The Wizard]

38. Why rope?

Would anyone go for razor ribbon?

[kestrel91316]

32. kestrel's solution:

[EVDebs]

3. Reminds me of the Helm's disclosure at the tail end of Oliver Stone's JFK

Telling us that Clay Shaw really was a CIA asset. Who'da thunk it, the CIA doesn't do things domestically on the 'up and up', like it shouldn't be doing in the first place.

[wildbilln864]

4. Only twenty years?

Damn!

[durrrty libby]

6. Gluttons

[symbolman]

7. Can they use this as precedent

to go after Halliburton?

[Dems Will Win]

8. Not really, only in a general war profiteering cleanup kind of way

BUT THERE ARE 16 OTHER GUILTY REPUBLICANS ON THAT DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE AND THEY WILL ALL BE INVESTIGATED.

[symbolman]

35. Might depend on how the next head

of the DOJ feels, he may just let crooks like Bush and Cheeny get off Scott Free...

[PassingFair]

9. Anything on the TeeVee about this?

Prolly not.

[Dems Will Win]

13. Kick

[liberalla]

14. Big kick and Recommend!

You're right-- They will try to bury this!

:kick:

[SpiralHawk]

15. Like ham & cheese, where you find republicons you find corruption

[L. Coyote]

46. Like cheese and rats!

[Robbien]

16. I was so worried because the jury was spending so long on deliberations

I thought maybe there were some hard-nosed GOPers on the panel who would just ignore all the evidence and hold out for a not-guilty plea.

So YAY!

For once justice ruled.

[Blackhatjack]

17. Just imagine what will be exposed after the next election and a new AG...

WE cannot afford to brush it all under the rug and 'look to the future.' IF we do they will come back later to do even more dastardly deeds, just like they always do.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

24. Seriously. This nation CAN'T AFFORD any more of this corruption. nt

[redqueen]

18. I hope the whore media gets a whiff of the sex angle.

That oughtta keep their empty heads turned toward this story for a while longer. I hope.

[EVDebs]

40. This story was radioactive to begin with...

"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. "

FBI probes Watergate prostitution allegations
Infamous hotel used by defense contractor to entertain lawmakers?

By Lisa Myers & the NBC Investigative Unit
updated 4:38 p.m. PT, Thurs., May. 4, 2006

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

Note that this story appeared over a year ago with little or no followup. That's because of the "others" in Congress and CIA.

[ooglymoogly]

19. Do all ruthless bastard pugs look alike or just have a similar nasty look about them?

He could be a stand in for Rupert Murdoch.

[spanone]

20. i believe the MEDIA has completely ignored this story

[ooglymoogly]

21. Do all ruthless bastard pugs look alike or just have

a similar nasty evil look about them? Or are they just all clones of pure evil? He could easily be a stand in for Rupert Murdoch.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

22. There is so much more corruption out there. USAGs investigating got fired.

Hence, the reasons underlying the firings are so damn important.

I hope to live to see the day when the worst of such corruption (AT THE TOP) is revealed.

[Joanne98]

25. When is Jerry Lewis going to prison?

[Dems Will Win]

26. Investigation not started yet by *

[Stevepol]

27. All of this stuff is nothing by comparison with what's waiting to be found out

about the electronic voting machines. The amt of money wasted buying these "crap ass machines" (to quote Peace Patriot) across the country almost defies the imagination. Add to that the amt of money that has passed under the table to buy off state Secys of State et al., etc. etc. etc. and you've got a real boondoggle of monumental proportions.

Oh and add something else too. How much has the country lost because of the incompetents and crooks elected because of the machines?

[Dems Will Win]

28. kick

[War Pigs]

29. nephew as a pimp?? or in GOP -speak...government

subcontractor/entrepeneur.LOL

[lovuian]

30. 90 Billion OMG

Awful

[NewJeffCT]

34. It's "only" $90 million

still a lot, though.

[ladywnch]

31. this is all great and all but will any of the Dems use this info to

beat rethugs over the head and educate the public during the elections? The public needs to know how they've been robbed over the last 7 years and that how the rethugs used that money to keep the country in a constant state of fear.....and how these leeches lived high off the hog off our tax money while the rest of us struggled to survive.

Will any of them do it?

I fear not. it will simply fade away.

[AikidoSoul]

33. More from the Republican House of Whorers

Congratulations to fired federal prosecutor Carol Lam for pursuing this case this is one of the reasons that BushCo fired some federal prosecutors. Carol was getting too close to the big money thefts that were lining their own pockets.

[lvx35]

36. Wow. What's going to happen when China keeps investing in military technology?

And they DON'T have to give 90 cents of every dollar to subsidize corrupt old perverts? Will we continue to point to how much we spend on our military and stroke off about how its "the best in the world" while China produces massive quanitities of the same technology with Wal-Mart efficiency at 1/20th the cost??? This IS a threat to national security.

[BornagainDUer]

37. Blam! A prosecutor Bush forgot to fire!

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

39. He'll simply die of a heart attack then move to Paraguay.

Kenny Boy has his room ready and waiting for him.

:shrug:

[proud patriot]

41. Wheeeeeeeeeeeee !

FUN

[trof]

42. And he killed Lincoln too.

Don't forget that.

[live love laugh]

43. LOL. n/t

[Dems Will Win]

44. UPDATE: Wilkes Killed Lincoln too!

[senseandsensibility]

45. We're not hearing anything about this in the media

Wonder why.:sarcasm:

[L. Coyote]

47. Would you like all 238 news articles found so far?

Jury finds Wilkes guilty
San Diego Union Tribune, United States - 16 hours ago
By Greg Moran A federal jury convicted Poway defense contractor Brent Wilkes yesterday for his role in engineering the biggest bribery scheme in ...
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/0-0&fp=47310083eba3144b&ei=biQxR_7uMIr0rQPS9vzkDQ&url=http%3A//www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20071106-9999-1n6wilkes.html&cid=1123180059

Wilkes convicted on all 13 counts San Diego Union Tribune
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/0-1&fp=47310083eba3144b&ei=biQxR_7uMIr0rQPS9vzkDQ&url=http%3A//www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/cunningham/20071105-1344-bn05wilkes2.html&cid=1123180059

Defense Contractor Brent Wilkes Found Guilty of Bribing ... Associated Content
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/0-2&fp=47310083eba3144b&ei=biQxR_7uMIr0rQPS9vzkDQ&url=http%3A//www.associatedcontent.com/article/439921/defense_contractor_brent_wilkes_found.html&cid=1123180059

Jurors resume deliberations in Wilkes case San Diego Union Tribune
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/0-3&fp=47310083eba3144b&ei=biQxR_7uMIr0rQPS9vzkDQ&url=http%3A//www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20071105-0158-wilkestrial.html&cid=1123180059

New York Times http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/0-4&fp=47310083eba3144b&ei=biQxR_7uMIr0rQPS9vzkDQ&url=http%3A//www.nytimes.com/2007/11/06/washington/06bribe.html%3Fref%3Dus&cid=1123180059

The Associated Press
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/0-5&fp=47310083eba3144b&ei=biQxR_7uMIr0rQPS9vzkDQ&url=http%3A//ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gRUhowrjXrAojU5jM1zd2hyExSAQD8SNSUH81&cid=1123180059

Would you like all 238 news articles found so far? http://news.google.com/news?q=Brent+Wilkes&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=lga&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=news_result&resnum=1&ct=title

[senseandsensibility]

48. Well, that's nice

I should have been more specific, I guess. I meant CNN, MSNBC, FAUX, the networks--you know, the teevee, as Randi Rhodes calls it. Seems like the teevee covered Clinton scandals aplenty back in the day. And like it or not, that's where the majority of Americans gets their news.