Prosecutors blast Wilkes, seek 25-year prison term

[unhappycamper]

Brent Wilkes


Prosecutors blast Wilkes, seek 25-year prison term
By Greg Moran
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
February 16, 2008

Federal prosecutors say Brent Wilkes is a war profiteer, a lecher and a liar whose decade-long bribery of former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham netted him $46 million.

For that, and for orchestrating the largest congressional bribery scheme in history, they say the Poway defense contractor should be sentenced to 25 years in prison.

In court papers filed this week, prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's Office threw the book at Wilkes, 53, who is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday.

They blasted his once-high-flying lifestyle, belittled his claims of innocence and branded him an “overgrown frat boy” fueled by greed and avarice.

At minimum, Wilkes should receive no less than 16 years and eight months in prison, prosecutors said. That would be exactly twice the length of the sentence Cunningham received after pleading guilty to conspiracy and tax evasion.


Rest of article at: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20080216-9999-1n16sentence.html

[salin]

1. Folks, remember and keep in mind - that this would still be ongoing,

had some San Diego reporter not had a little downtime and happened to run across the sale of Cunningham's house and thought, "that's odd" and used the time to dig around and start finding threads to pull in what eventually became this story.

[Joanne98]

2. YAY!