Brent Wilkes (Cunningham briber) convicted on all 13 counts.

[ProSense]

Verdict in Trial of Brent Wilkes

11.05.07 -- 2:35PM
By David Kurtz

Breaking: Jury verdict reached in trial of Duke Cunningham briber Brent Wilkes. Will be announced in court soon.

Update: Wilkes convicted on all 13 counts.

From above link:

November 05, 2007

Wilkes convicted of corruption

A U.S. District Court jury has convicted Brent Wilkes on all 13 counts in his corruption trial. The Poway defense contractor had been accused by prosecutors of leveraging more than $600,000 in cash bribes and thousands more in gifts to ousted Rep. Randy Duke Cunningham in exchange for Cunningham's influence in securing more than $80 million in government contracts.

[spanone]

1. K&R

[Ian David]

2. Brent Wikes Wilkes Wilkes is going to jail jail jail! n/t

[Richard Steele]

3. He's the kind of guy who deserves "Life without parole".

Our society would do well to start punishing such corruption
much more harshly.

[tabasco]

9. No! Then they wouldn't have enough room for the marijuana criminals!!

You wouldn't want all those crazy marijuana criminals out on the street, would you??

[Richard Steele]

11. Let's just say I'm willing to take that risk. nm

[MagickMuffin]

4. Move over Duke-Stir you have company.... ;=D

While Geragos attacked the case against his client and how the government put it together, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Forge forcefully belittled the defense case.

Wilkes testified in his own defense, but Forge compared his testimony to the children's picture book “David Gets in Trouble.” Showing a copy of the book to the jurors, he said the title character's myriad excuses such as “It's not my fault,” “I didn't mean to” and “I forgot” echo Wilkes' testimony.

“This man was the architect of a multimillion-dollar corruption scheme, and he has a defense fit for a 5-year-old,” Forge said.

OUCH, that's gotta hurt:rofl:

[Spazito]

5. That's good news!

Thanks for the post!

[DCKit]

6. One small slice of the Abramhof pie.

There's SOOOOO much to go around yet.

[lpbk2713]

7. .... and Katherine Harris won't even get a slap on the wrist.

Link: http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_7331419

Wade and his former company MZM Inc. are acknowledging violating campaign finance laws by funneling $78,000 in corporate contributions to GOP House members Virgil Goode of Virginia and Katherine Harris of Florida.

The FEC found no wrongdoing by Goode or Harris, who's no longer in the House.


I hope the concept of justice will return soon after January 2009. I've had enough of this shit.

[texpatriot2004]

8. Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! nm

[malaise]

10. Oh happy day

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