Correction on the Wade-Cheney MZM Inc. contract:

[originalpckelly]

I'm looking at this database with all these contracts in it, and it says in the contract description that there were:
"Major Product or Service Code D: Automatic data processing and telecom. services
Product or Service Code D302: ADP Systems Development Services
Principal NAICS Code 541511: Custom Computer Programming Services"


It just lists the "EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT" as the recipient of the services, and technically Cheney's Office of The Vice President, is included in the EOP, so this fact works for it.

If there is a discrepancy between what Cheney's office received and what was listed on record, that might be a problem, I am fairly confident 18 USC Section 1001 would apply in general to a fraudulent record submitted to the executive branch because the law says:

"...whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive...branch of the Government of the United States, knowingly and willfully...makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry..."

So if Cheney said it was for a different product than it turned out it was, that law applies. I have the Wade-Wilkes-Foggo indictments, so I'll work on looking to flesh this out more, and come back with what I think I've found.

Here's the website with the MZM contract for the EOP:
http://www.fedspending.org/fpds/fpds.php?fiscal_year=2002&parent_id=197275&sortby=u&datype=T&reptype=r&database=fpds&detail=4&submit=GO

[Marie26]

1. Hi originalpckelly

I know you've been looking into the gwb43.com operation, and I wanted to add this tidbit from a story about MZM/Cunningham:

"In the fall of 2002, Burtt asked a team of private contractors, including MZM, to evaluate CIFA's unclassified and classified networks, installed by MZM's prime contractor, Gray Hawk. Defense Department rules require that even its unclassified day-to-day business must be handled within the Pentagon's secure .mil domain. But the evaluation team learned that Gray Hawk had built a .net commercial-type intranet instead."

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/060917/25mzm_8.htm

It sort of reminds me about how White House emails were sent on a commercial intranet instead through gwb43. If the Republicans did it w/CIFA, it helps lend credence to the idea that they routed White House mail through a commercial network as well.

[originalpckelly]

2. Thanks!!!!

:hi:

It definitely does.

[robinlynne]

3. good for you. Thank-you!

[originalpckelly]

4. You know what, MZM, Wade's company was located up the street from the Watergate Hotel...

It's a number of blocks away, but it's still on New Hampshire Avenue.

[robinlynne]

6. oh god.

[originalpckelly]

7. I think I'm going to do something tomorrow...

I have something here that I want a reaction to, and I guess the only way to get it is to contact the white house.

I suppose I'll call the white house operator and ask for the white house press office. I'm going to confront them about this contract, and the fact that a few days later it says Michael Wilkes indictment that Mitchell Wade, the owner of MZM purchased the Dukester for $140,000, the exact amount of the contract.

[robinlynne]

8. Run it by someone you trust first....

[grizmaster]

5. k&r

[Duer 157099]

9. This is just a gut instinct, but

something about that $140k figure bothers me. It's almost as if *someone* wanted this link to be uncovered. I mean, they could have altered the figure just slightly so that the boat price and the contract were not *both* $140... unless of course they are just so arrogant that getting caught just never entered the equation.

But that little factoid about MZM being previously engaged in surveillance equipment, and the suggestion that *what if* they provided "bugged" office furniture to Darth... just keeps knocking around in my head...

Was this some sort of set up?