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...stepping down as his boss Director Porter Goss leaves later this month, cleared defense contractor Brent Wilkes in for at least one visit to CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., within the last 12 months, sources tell TIME.The visit occurred before Wilkes was cited - though not charged - in ex-congressman Randy ?Duke? Cunningham?s November guilty plea as an unindicted co-conspirator who provided over $600,000 of the $2.4 million in bribes that Cunningham admitted accepting from defense contractors. (Though Wilkes is not named in the Cunningham indictment, his attorneys, who insist Wilkes has done nothing wrong, have confirmed...
Been looking for a 19TH century French armoire in walnut, with a veneer of disgrace? The IRS may have a deal for you. It's auctioning off the cabinet and nearly 40 other antiques this week--all part of $2.4 million in bribes taken by ex-Congressman Randy (Duke) Cunningham--with proceeds going toward his unpaid tax bills. Here's a peek at other items, once owned by big-name debtors, that the government seized to put on the block...
...Whom did ex-Congressman Duke Cunningham talk with while wearing a wire? The speculation is making members of Congress nervous. As TIME.com reported last week, Cunningham?the California Republican who pleaded guilty on Nov. 28 to taking $2.4 million in bribes from defense contractors?wore a wire to aid the Justice Department investigation just before his plea. The FBI is still probing defense contractors, and a private-sector source says Cunningham was wired while meeting a rep from at least one firm, possibly to get dirt on other members of Congress. An FBI spokesman wouldn't comment but quoted...
Treasury Secretary James Baker, who worked with Conable in the Bush campaign, suggested the ex-Congressman for the World Bank job. In that post, Conable may be able to help the Secretary implement the socalled Baker plan to ease the debt crisis of developing nations. Unveiled in October, the plan calls for the World Bank, which lends about $15 billion a year to some 100 developing nations, to provide a wider range of financial assistance than previously, and also to play a role in prescribing long-term economic reforms for its debtor clients. Lately, the Baker plan has showed signs...
JAMES ROGAN Politically vulnerable manager bragged about being ex-judge. What about ex-Congressman...