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Tuesday, May 09, 2006
FBI probes CIA defense contracts after top official resigns
Tom Henry at 10:32 AM ET

[JURIST] An FBI investigation into the activities of former CIA Executive Director and number-three agency official Kyle "Dusty" Foggo [Wikipedia profile] has intensified after Foggo's resignation Monday. The FBI probe is looking into whether Foggo took steps to improperly aid his high school friend Brent R. Wilkes' company ADCS [company website] in obtaining large CIA contracts. Former California Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham [Wikipedia profile] pleaded guilty [JURIST report; plea agreement, PDF] last year to taking $2.4 million in bribes from Wilkes and others in return for federal contracts, though Wilkes himself has not been charged. Cunningham helped ADCS receive more than $80 million in defense contracts involving data transfer.

Foggo, who has acknowledged attending informal poker parties with Wilkes, insists he has breached no laws but the FBI is trying to determine if Foggo, like Cunningham, played a role in helping ADCS procure some of those contracts through improper acts.

The Washington Post has more.

Nepotism, Republicanism, Corporatism, and once more Corruption.

And this is the 'leading democracy' in the world today?

Ouch.

Tuesday, May 09, 2006
FBI probes CIA defense contracts after top official resigns
Tom Henry at 10:32 AM ET

[JURIST] An FBI investigation into the activities of former CIA Executive Director and number-three agency official Kyle "Dusty" Foggo [Wikipedia profile] has intensified after Foggo's resignation Monday. The FBI probe is looking into whether Foggo took steps to improperly aid his high school friend Brent R. Wilkes' company ADCS [company website] in obtaining large CIA contracts. Former California Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham [Wikipedia profile] pleaded guilty [JURIST report; plea agreement, PDF] last year to taking $2.4 million in bribes from Wilkes and others in return for federal contracts, though Wilkes himself has not been charged. Cunningham helped ADCS receive more than $80 million in defense contracts involving data transfer.

Foggo, who has acknowledged attending informal poker parties with Wilkes, insists he has breached no laws but the FBI is trying to determine if Foggo, like Cunningham, played a role in helping ADCS procure some of those contracts through improper acts.

The Washington Post has more.

Nepotism, Republicanism, Corporatism, and once more Corruption.

And this is the 'leading democracy' in the world today?

Ouch.

Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Australia oil-for-food inquiry to probe government knowledge of AWB bribes
Krystal MacIntyre at 12:09 PM ET

[JURIST] The Australian parliamentary inquiry [Cole Commission website] looking into allegations that leading Australian wheat exporter Australian Wheat Board (AWB) [corporate website] provided over $200 million in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's former regime [JURIST report] as part of the now-defunct UN oil-for-food program [JURIST news archive] has expanded its scope and will also try to learn what government officials knew about the alleged scam. Commission head Terence Cole [official profile] on Tuesday urged lawmakers and public servants to come forward with evidence in connection to the scandal.

Prime Minister John Howard [official profile] has insisted that the government had no knowledge of the alleged multimillion dollar scam that violated UN sanctions. An AWB executive, however, has testified [hearing transcripts] that Australian officials were aware of the company's payments to the Hussein regime as early as March, 2001.

AP has more.

our government's ministers are trying to us the defence, "we didn't know (coz we didn't want to know)" ... "no one drew our attention to it" ...

so much for responsible government.

with our federal behaving as if it is constructed like the usa not the uk/canadian/new zealand we're being royally 'tarded by the royalists - who seem to assume we haven't noticed we're not in a republic.

Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Australia oil-for-food inquiry to probe government knowledge of AWB bribes
Krystal MacIntyre at 12:09 PM ET

[JURIST] The Australian parliamentary inquiry [Cole Commission website] looking into allegations that leading Australian wheat exporter Australian Wheat Board (AWB) [corporate website] provided over $200 million in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's former regime [JURIST report] as part of the now-defunct UN oil-for-food program [JURIST news archive] has expanded its scope and will also try to learn what government officials knew about the alleged scam. Commission head Terence Cole [official profile] on Tuesday urged lawmakers and public servants to come forward with evidence in connection to the scandal.

Prime Minister John Howard [official profile] has insisted that the government had no knowledge of the alleged multimillion dollar scam that violated UN sanctions. An AWB executive, however, has testified [hearing transcripts] that Australian officials were aware of the company's payments to the Hussein regime as early as March, 2001.

AP has more.

our government's ministers are trying to us the defence, "we didn't know (coz we didn't want to know)" ... "no one drew our attention to it" ...

so much for responsible government.

with our federal behaving as if it is constructed like the usa not the uk/canadian/new zealand we're being royally 'tarded by the royalists - who seem to assume we haven't noticed we're not in a republic.