http://www.expose-the-war-profiteers.org/archive/media/2009/20090226.htmFebruary 26, 2009
Alexandria, Va. - The highest-ranking CIA officer ever convicted of a federal felony was sentenced to more than three years in prison Thursday as part of a bribery and fraud investigation that previously resulted in the conviction of a California congressman.
Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, who as executive director held the CIA's No. 3 rank from 2004 to 2006, had asked the judge to spare him jail time, citing his covert work on behalf of the country over two decades at the CIA, including a supervisory stint in Iraq after the Sept. 11 attacks.
But U.S. District Judge James Cacheris sentenced him to the 37 months prosecutors had sought for a scheme they said revealed Foggo as a crass opportunist who wrapped himself in a cloak of patriotism.
Prosecutor Jason Forge said Foggo took advantage of the nation's and the CIA's sense of urgency after the Sept. 11 attacks.
"It's no coincidence that Mr. Foggo's fraud took place entirely in the aftermath of Sept. 11," Forge said. "One man's crisis is another man's opportunity, and Mr. Foggo proved himself to be a very capable opportunist."
Foggo plead guilty to a single count of fraud last year as part of a plea bargain in which prosecutors dropped 27 other counts.
But the exact conduct for which Foggo pleaded guilty is still somewhat murky.
Prosecutors say the fraud encompassed a years-long scheme in which Foggo's old friend, contractor Brent Wilkes, showered Foggo with tens of thousands of dollars worth of gifts and luxury vacations in exchange for steering multimillion-dollar contracts in Wilkes' direction.
They also say the fraud includes Foggo's efforts to get his mistress hired by the CIA at a six-figure salary for a job for which she was unqualified.
The defense, though, has construed the guilty plea more narrowly. In previous hearings, defense lawyer Mark MacDougall has said the guilty plea boils down to misconduct over a contract for a single pallet of bottled water.
At Thursday's hearing, Foggo, a San Diego native who now lives in Vienna, Va., told the judge he was motivated to plead guilty in large part because he wanted to spare the CIA a public trial in which he would have been forced to divulge government secrets.
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Feds: Misconduct by CIA’s Foggo Spanned DecadesFrom the Associated Press
February 25, 2009
Alexandria, Va. - Prosecutors say a former top CIA official soon to be sentenced on corruption charges had a history of misconduct spanning two decades.
Kyle "Dusty" Foggo (FOH'-goh) is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday in federal court in Alexandria as part of a bribery investigation that also ensnared former California congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham. As executive director from 2004 to 2006, Foggo held the CIA's third-highest rank.
In court papers, prosecutors say Foggo's misdeeds began in the late 1980s when he punched a bicyclist during a traffic dispute while stationed overseas. They also say he breached security by engaging in multiple relationships with foreign women.
The papers say that if Foggo had not been caught, he intended to run for Congress in California.