I'll make this short and sweet. Sorry this is so short...I thought it more newsworthy than an open diary but I don't the case all that well...other than what emptywheel discussed today in her diary (whether DOJ consciously blew the case) and my bedtime readings into the Cunningham matter. If this is a duplicate, I'll be happy to delete.
I saw this on TPM, BTW. The Fresno Bee is reporting that there are new indictments against Dusty Foggo and Brent Wilkes...the people who allegedly were conspirators with Duke Cunningham. Read what the Bee has to say...it's a tale of slime, perfidy, mendacity and highly sensitive information being traded for wealth. I don't know the case well enough to know whether this is a response to the recent charges that leaks have compromised the case. Rather than facing the original 11 charges, Wilkes and Foggo are facing 30 charges. Hotcha!!! Definitely schadenfreudalicious.
An exceprt from the Fresno Bee after the flip:
The indictment, returned Thursday by a federal grand jury in San Diego, supersedes charges brought in February against career CIA man Kyle "Dusty" Foggo and Poway-based contractor Brent Wilkes. The charges grew from the bribery scandal that landed former U.S. Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham in prison.
Foggo resigned from the spy agency a year ago, after his house and office were raided by federal agents. He is the highest-ranking CIA officer to be charged with crimes allegedly committed while working for the agency.
The pair now face 30 wide-ranging counts of fraud, conspiracy and money laundering.
According to the new indictment, Foggo provided Wilkes with "sensitive, internal information related to our national security," including classified information, to help him prepare proposals for providing undercover flights for the CIA under the guise of a civil aviation company and armored vehicles for agency operations. Foggo allegedly then pushed his CIA colleagues to hire Wilkes' companies without disclosing their longstanding friendship.
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