Posted on 02/26/2009 9:29:01 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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.
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a record of misconduct and warnings in his personnel file that he was willing to disregard or break the agency’s rules, according to Justice Department documents unsealed yesterday
They recount how Foggo’s colleagues repeatedly accused him of improper liaisons with foreign nationals, how he allegedly assaulted a foreigner who bumped his car, and how — from his perch at CIA headquarters as executive director — he bullied the agency’s office of general counsel into hiring his subperforming longtime mistress and then transferred the woman’s complaining supervisor.
A fourth CIA official, who supervised Foggo’s mistress in the general counsel’s office, explained in an affidavit that Foggo ordered her transferred to the Defense Department after she complained that the woman’s work was “sub-par.” She said that she filed a complaint about Foggo in March 2005 with the agency’s inspector general “using the designated system meant to ensure my anonymity and prevent retribution,” but that the office “referred the complaint directly” to Foggo, and that he quickly figured out who was behind it.
His connection to the Republican congressman was that he was also a friend of the guy involved with the congressman??
Now there is guilt by association.
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