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...inquiry centers on questions of whether Wilkes' business, which held at least one contract with the CIA, received special treatment from Foggo in exchange for improper gifts. Attorneys for Wilkes and Foggo have said their clients have done nothing wrong. TIME reported Thursday that Foggo cleared Wilkes for at least one visit to CIA headquarters in the past year, and earlier in the week it reported that the man who had recommended Foggo for his job, CIA consultant and onetime Goss aide Brant Bassett, had on one occasion served as a paid consultant for Wilkes - though not while...
...victim here." Hundley added that he has not had any inquiries from either the Justice Department or the CIA inspector general, who is investigating whether Wilkes' business received any special treatment from Foggo in exchange for improper gifts such as lavish travel. Wilkes' business held at least one contract with the CIA as well as technology contracts with the Pentagon, according to U.S. officials and other sources. Wilkes? attorneys have said he has done nothing wrong...
...part of its mushrooming Cunningham probe, the Justice Department has been looking into whether Foggo received improper gifts such as lavish travel from Wilkes, according to a source familiar with the case. Wilkes' business held at least one contract with the CIA as well as technology contracts with the Pentagon, according to U.S. officials and other sources. An investigator for the House intelligence committee is also scrutinizing Bassett's link to Wilkes, according to government disclosures obtained by TIME...
ACQUITTED. Kazbek Dukuzov, 32, and Musa Vakhayev, 42, of carrying out the contract killing of U.S. journalist Paul Klebnikov; in Moscow. Klebnikov, the chief editor of Forbes' Russian edition, was shot dead as he left his Moscow office in July 2004. The prosecution had alleged that the two Chechens killed the editor on orders from Chechen separatist Kozh-Akhmed Nukhayev, the subject of Klebnikov's book Conversations with a Barbarian...
...think of Dine Originals as one big chain--taken together, the 700 restaurants pull in about $1.4 billion in annual sales and represent $450 million in purchasing power--so its members get the clout and volume prices previously reserved for the big boys. Last month Luria signed a contract with Avendra, the top U.S. group-purchasing company in the restaurant-and-hotel sector, to get members lower prices on food and supply contracts as well as consulting advice on how to run their businesses more efficiently. The help may not reverse the chain-restaurant juggernaut, but it gives small restaurants...