Remember the guilty plea last month from former congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-CA), who admitted to accepting $2.4 million in bribes in exchange for his political influence in defense dept. procurement of defense contracts?
One of the two defense contractors who bribed Cunningham, Brett Wilkes, paid Ed Buckman and his "Alexander Group", mentioned in our large article in the preceding post, a lot of money......
Quote:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniont...1n14delay.html
Case vs. DeLay extends to Poway
Subpoenas issued to businessman
By Dean Calbreath
STAFF WRITER
December 14, 2005
Brent Wilkes Tom DeLay
Texas authorities have issued subpoenas to Poway businessman Brent Wilkes, identified as a co-conspirator in the corruption case of former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, in connection with the investigation of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.
In addition to Wilkes, subpoenas were issued for his longtime business associate, Max Gelwix, as well as ADCS Inc. and PerfectWave Technologies, Poway companies owned by Wilkes.
Wilkes has been identified as "co-conspirator No. 1" in the Cunningham case, accused of giving $630,000 in cash and favors to the former Rancho Santa Fe congressman. Cunningham sat on the influential House defense appropriations subcommittee, which helped create programs that resulted in at least $95 million in contracts for ADCS.
Cunningham pleaded guilty last month to tax evasion and conspiracy and resigned after admitting he had taken more than $2.4 million in bribes from Wilkes and three other co-conspirators – former Wilkes consultant Mitchell Wade, New York businessman Thomas Kontogiannis and Long Island financier John T. Michael.
Wilkes and his associates have a history of donating to influential politicians as they sought to gain government contracts for ADCS and its affiliated companies.
PerfectWave Technologies donated $15,000 to Texans for a Republican Majority, a group that DeLay founded in his campaign to redraw Texas congressional districts to create more seats for Republicans in the 2002 election. ..........
<b>....The same month that Wilkes launched PerfectWave, he hired Alexander Strategy Group – composed of DeLay insiders – as his lobbying group on Capitol Hill.
The group, which is headed by DeLay's former chief of staff Ed Buckham, staffed with former DeLay employees and included DeLay's wife as a consultant, has a reputation in Washington as a conduit to DeLay's office.
Over the next three years, Wilkes paid about $630,000 in lobbying fees to the group.</b> Although Wilkes' own two-man lobbying group – Group W Advisors – officially represented PerfectWave in Washington, Group W Advisors was represented by the Alexander Strategy Group.
During 2003 and 2004, as Wilkes pushed for contracts for PerfectWave and his other companies, DeLay was a frequent flier on a corporate jet partly owned by Wilkes and was often seen in his company at Southern California golf courses.
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In the post linked here:
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showpos...0&postcount=36
I had spent several hours researching (half a night....) and then posting about Wilke's ties to high government officials, in the post linked above.
If you have gotten this far and are curious as to why the posted research related to Wilkes was deleted, especially since it was related to Elphaba's report about CIFA and the contracts that Randy Cunningham's congressional committee had awarded to the other defense contractor who had bribed Cunningham....Mitchell Wade, explore the post linked above and make your own inquiry as to where the rest of the material went.
I know that the Abramoff/Delay/Bush admin./Cunningham investigation is complicated. It will be with us for some time into the future. Become familiar with it. I am weary....both from my efforts to present it in one place on this forum, which was thwarted, and then in several places, where the reaction was to delete a large chunk of material that I had posted.