Former CIA executive pleads guilty to defrauding government(Foggo)

[maddezmom]

Source: LATimes

Kyle Dustin Foggo was accused of helping steer agency contracts to companies run by a friend and former college roommate.
By Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
September 30, 2008
SAN DIEGO -- A former top CIA official pleaded guilty today to one count of defrauding the U.S. government for using his influence to steer intelligence contracts to a friend and former college roommate.

Kyle Dustin "Dusty" Foggo, who once held the third-highest position in the CIA, entered his plea in a Virginia federal courtroom, related to his dealings with defense contract Brent Wilkes. He was accused of helping steer agency contracts to companies run by Wilkes.



Kyle "Dusty" Foggo once held the third-...Foggo resigned in 2006 as executive director of the intelligence agency, and was charged in February 2007 with fraud and other offenses in the bribery case of convicted U.S. Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham.

Foggo was then indicted in May 2007 on charges involving Wilkes, who is serving time in prison for his involvement in the Cunningham scandal.



Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-foggo30-2008sep30,0,5087545.story

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Although Foggo, 53, pleaded guilty to one count of fraud conspiracy, prosecutors agreed to dismiss the 27 other counts against him and to recommend a sentence of no more than 37 months in prison. U.S. District Judge James C. Cacheris, after accepting Foggo's plea, took the unusual step of telling Foggo that his lawyers "have done a good job for you in this case." Under federal law, Foggo could receive a prison term as high as 20 years when he is sentenced Jan. 8.


Prosecutors and Foggo's lawyers declined to comment. Defense lawyers had said they planned to expose sensitive intelligence programs and undercover operations as part of Foggo's defense. It was not immediately clear whether that threat, which the government had been fighting, was related to Foggo's plea. His trial had been scheduled for Nov. 3.

Foggo was first indicted in February 2007 in federal court in San Diego, where Wilkes's business operations are based. Wilkes was also indicted then. But the case was transferred to federal court in Alexandria in February because the government said it had uncovered evidence to support additional charges against Foggo, some of which could be brought only in Alexandria. Foggo lives in Vienna, and Wilkes maintained an office in Chantilly.

In a new indictment in May, a federal grand jury in Alexandria accused Foggo of pulling strings to get a high-level CIA job for his mistress, saying that he pressured CIA managers into hiring the woman after she was turned down for a position in the CIA's general counsel office. Foggo did not plead guilty to those specific counts today.

more:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/29/AR2008092901148.html

[bobthedrummer]

1. Wasn't "Dusty" threatening to go public with everything he could bring up about the Agency

to avert prosecution, but not like cutting a deal with the court???

Many of US "amateur intelligence analysts" could care less...

[underpants]

2. Add him to the list

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/underpants/86

Indicted / Convicted/ Pled Guilty

* Scooter Libby - Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff - resigned after being indicted for Obstruction of Justice, Perjury, and Making False Statements in connection with the investigation stemming from the leak of a CIA operative's identity.

* Lester Crawford - Commissioner, FDA - resigned after only two months on the job. Pled guilty to conflict of interest and making false statements.

* Brian Doyle - Deputy Press Secretary, DHS - Resigned in wake of child sex scandal. Pled no contest to 32 criminal counts.

* Claude Allen - Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy- resigned, pled guilty to shoplifting from Target stores.

* David Safavian - former head of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy at the Office of Management and Budget - convicted of lying to ethics officials and Senate investigators about his ties to lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

* Larry Franklin - intelligence officer, Defense - resigned, pled guilty to passing secrets to Israel.

* Roger Stillwell - desk officer, Interior Department - pled guilty to failing to report Redskins tickets and free dinners from Jack Abramoff.

* Frank Figueroa - senior DHS official, former head of anti-sex-crime Operation Predator - pled no contest to exposing himself to 16-year-old girl in Florida mall. Girl says he fondled himself for ten minutes. Figueroa forfeited his badge, gun, and access to databases; employment status pending internal DHS review.

* Darleen Druyun - senior contracting official, U.S. Air Force - pled guilty and sentenced to nine months in prison for her role in the Boeing tanker lease scandal.

* John Korsmo - chairman, Federal Housing Finance Board - pled guilty last year to lying to the Senate and an inspector general. He swore he had no idea how a list of presidents for FHFB-regulated banks were invited to a fundraiser for his friend's congressional campaign. On the invites, Korsmo was listed as the "Special Guest." Got 18 months of probation.

* P. Trey Sunderland III - chief, Geriatric Psychiatry, Nat'l Institute of Mental Health - admitted to a criminal conflict of interest charge for failing to report $300,000 received from Pfizer, Inc. *As of 12/11/06, still employed by NIMH.

Resigned Due to/Pending/After Investigation

* Carl Truscott - Director, Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Bureau - resigned. A report by the Justice Department's Inspector General found that Truscott wasted tens of thousands of dollars on luxuries, wasted millions on whimsical management decisions and violated ethics rules by ordering employees to help his nephew with a high school video project.

* Joseph Schmitz - Inspector General, Defense - Resigned amid charges he personally intervened to protect top political appointees.

* Steven Griles - Deputy Secretary at the Interior Department - resigned, currently under investigation by the Justice Department for his ties to Jack Abramoff.

* Susan Ralston - assistant, White House - resigned amidst revelations that she had accepted thousands of dollars in gifts from Abramoff without compensating him, counter to White House ethics rules.

* Dusty Foggo - Executive Director, CIA - stepped down following accusations of corruption in connection to the Duke Cunningham scandal. Under investigation.

* Janet Rehnquist - Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services - resigned in the face of allegations she blocked a politically dangerous probe on behalf of the Bush family.

* Ken Tomlinson, Board Chairman, Corporation for Public Broadcasting; member, Broadcasting Board of Governors - resigned at the release of an inspector general report concluding he had broken laws in spending CPB money to hire politically connected consultants to search for "bias" without consulting the board. At BBG, a separate investigation found he was running a "horse racing operation" out of his office, and continuing to hire politically-wired individuals to do "consulting" work for him. He's still there.

* George Deutsch - press aide, NASA - resigned amid allegations he prevented the agency's top climate scientist from speaking publicly about global warming.

* Richard Perle - Chairman, Defense Policy Board - resigned from Pentagon advisory panel amid conflict-of-interest charges.

* James Roche - secretary, U.S. Air Force - resigned in the wake of the Boeing tanker lease scandal, after it was revealed he had rather crudely pushed for Boeing to win a $23 billion contract.

* Marvin Sambur - top contracting executive, U.S. Air Force - Druyun's boss, Sambur resigned in the wake of the scandal. Investigations cleared him of wrongdoing.

* Philip Cooney - chief of staff, White House Council on Environmental Quality - a former oil industry lawyer with no scientific expertise, Cooney resigned after it was revealed he had watered down reports on global warming.

* Thomas Scully - Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - shortly after Scully resigned in 2003, an investigation by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General found that Scully had pressured the agency's actuary to underestimate the full cost of the Medicare reform bill by approximately $100 billion until after Congress passed the bill into law. Scully was also charged wtih conflict of interest allegations by the U.S. attorney's office for billing CMS for expenses incurred during a job search while he still headed the agency. He settled those charges by paying $9,782.

* Michelle Larson Korsmo - deputy chief of staff, Department of Labor - Helped her husband (see Frank Korsmo, above) with his donor scam. Quietly left her Labor plum job in February 2004, about two weeks before news broke that she and her husband were the targets of a criminal probe.

* David Smith - Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish, Wildlife, and Parks, Interior Department - resigned after shooting a buffalo and accepting its remains as an illegal gratuity. He eventually paid over $3,000 for the dead buffalo, but only after the internal inquiry had commenced.

* Sean Tunis - Chief Medical Officer, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) - Last summer, the State of Maryland suspended his medical license because he faked documentation relating to his medical education. Despite that, he stayed on board for several months at CMS, albeit on administrative leave. He has since been replaced, although it's not clear when because CMS did not announce the switch and has not responded to our calls.

Nomination Failed Due to Scandal

* Bernard Kerik - nominated, Secretary, Department of Homeland Security - withdrew his nomination amidst a host of corruption allegations. Eventually pled guilty to a misdemeanor relating to having accepted improper gifts totaling tens of thousands of dollars while he was a New York City official in the late 1990's.

* Timothy Flanigan - nominated, Deputy Attorney General - withdrew his nomination amidst revelations that he'd worked closely with lobbyist Jack Abramoff when he was General Counsel for Corporate and International Law at Tyco, which was a client of Abramoff's.

* Linda Chavez - nominated, Secretary of Labor - withdrew her nomination amidst revelations that an illegal immigrant lived in her home and worked for her


Bush Appointee Resignation Scorecard
http://thedcshuffle.com/2007/10/14/bush-appointee-resignation-scorecard/

[cascadiance]

3. Now this makes me ill!!!

From TPM Muckraker...

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/foggo_pleads_guilty_in_cia_bri.php

Foggo Pleads Guilty in CIA Bribery Case
By Zachary Roth - September 29, 2008, 12:43PM

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Though Foggo faces a maximum of 20 years in prison, prosecutors agreed that they will seek no more than three.

Anyone else feel we need a team of special prosecutors to investigate the WHOLE administrative branch of government now!

[bobthedrummer]

4. "CUNNINGHAM SCANDAL: Wilkes gets use of attorney for the indigent at trial"

a highly relevant repost of an archived Octafish thread (started August 21, 2007)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2961574

[gratuitous]

5. Nice timing, Dusty

So nice of the Bush Justice Department to cut a deal right now when everyone's attention is riveted on Wall Street. "Foggo? Who he?" And whoosh, like that he's gone until January when the court decides on a sentence for good old Dusty.

What's the penalty in other nations for selling out one's high government office during what we've been told is an existential war for our country's very soul?

[Haole Girl]

6. I can't even wrap my head around this

...because it means too many people must have known about it.

Aren't they watched carefully in the CIA?

:crazy:

[bobthedrummer]

7. Department of Just Us -kick

[Supersedeas]

8. and yet a US Attorney had to be fired for pursuing this case!?!

[bobthedrummer]

9. Following the criminal conspiracy of those in DoJ loyal only to their DECIDER-not the law. Kick.