REGION: Feds may seek tougher sentence for Cunningham figure

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Source: North County Times

By TERI FIGUEROA - Staff Writer | Thursday, March 27, 2008 12:05 PM PDT

Calling a 12-year prison sentence "unreasonable," federal prosecutors have positioned themselves to ask an appellate court to toughen the prison sentence a judge handed Poway defense contractor Brent Wilkes.

Wilkes has been behind bars since he was sentenced last month following his conviction for bribing former North County U.S. Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham

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Late last week, prosecutors filed notice of a cross appeal, stating that sentence U.S. District Judge Larry Alan Burns gave Wilkes "was a result of an incorrect application" of federal sentencing guidelines.

The one-page document is a notice to the court that the government may later lodge a detailed complaint regarding the sentence. The filing does not indicate what sentence prosecutors believe is appropriate.

Read more: http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2008/03/27/news/sandiego/8885db4c9c2d47e3882574190056b9e2.txt

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Hmmm... Wonder what's at work here on why they suddenly want to get more years in front of Brent Wilkes? Is he threatening to go public or something like that with what he knows went on? Do they have added means to cover up what he knows now?

Hmm... I wonder if it had to do with Mukasey's comments today?

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-27-2008/0004781534&EDATE=

or perhaps related to how they announced they are going after Dusty Foggo with additional charges too just the other day.

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1. It would be interesting to hear Carol Lam's opinion on all of this . . .

However, anytime I go by any of the evening shows, the same old farts are on . . .
thousands of possibilities --- but the same ole, same ole ---

[cascadiance]

2. Probably one of the conditions that Brent Scowcroft has on her job at Qualcomm...

... is that she doesn't talk AT ALL about anything she did before she got that nice job conveniently right after she left the US Attorney position she did (Scowcroft is on the board at Qualccomm).

[defendandprotect]

5. Didn't know any of that . .. but Carol Lam was offered all kinds of deals, as I recall,

to keep quiet about being fired. Weren't they all?
Amazing how quickly you forget details and names because you never hear them in the "free press"!!!

So -- with Scowcroft, eh ?
Evidently, he isn't quite as neo-con as the neo-cons . . . ?
And I thought Qualcomm was a phone company?

[Demeter]

3. If Bush Pardons Him, Doesn't Matter How Long the Sentence

And he'll do it; you know he will....

[flashl]

4. Make him sing with the details, the ties to all parties in hookergate and its tenacles in govt. nt

[Zorro]

6. I doubt they're doing this to keep him silent

Maybe, just maybe, they think the crooked bastard truly deserves the additional time for the crimes he committed.

I think he deserves the extra time. Actually, I think he deserves the death penalty, but that's just me.