The. Biggest. Scandal. Ever! Phony Front Companies Cycle Millions to GOP! House

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Biggest. Scandal. Ever! Phony Front Companies Cycle Millions

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The. Biggest. Scandal. Ever! Phony Front Companies Cycle Millions to

GOP! House Staffer, DELAY

by Sherlock Google

Sat Dec 10, 2005 at 09:48:20 AM PDT

 

 

Brent Wilkes & Mitchell Wade - Bagmen in the Successful Plot to Take

Over the United States and Enrich GOP Officeholders

 

The Duke Cunningham scandal goes much deeper than just the $2.4

million in bribes being reported by the media. There is a lot the

media is not telling you.

 

Ever wonder why the Republicans have SO much money in every national

election?

 

And what did the Dukester do to get his Rolls-Royce, anyway? Whose

Lear Jet was he flying around in?

 

* Sherlock Google's diary :: ::

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If you were a totally crooked neo-con former CIA financier Republican

who hangs with the corrupt Delay-Abramoff crowd, what would be the

most unethical, diabolical way to funnel SO much money to the

Republican Party and neo-con schemes that you could take back the

government from the Democrats?

 

Easy!

 

With your corrupt Republican buddies, form a slew of your own

brand-new Defense Companies, submit bids on things the Pentagon never

even asked for to the Delay/Cunningham network and Bingo!--those

contributions to the GOP and K Street will flow in like never before.

You can then even give to Presidential candidates like George W. Neo-Con.

 

Then you and your criminal gang take over the United States of America

with your ill-gotten gains. Once in power, you can use your

connections to weasel your way iuto intelligence agency contracts so

you can help said Neo-Cons cook up a case for the Iraq War by a phony

analysis of some aluminum tubes. The War on Terra is on!

 

Even more money for you and the GOP then.

 

It's a simple plan--one even the average American can understand.

 

Here's how Wilkes and Wade, with the help of the Culture of

Corruption, made all of themselves wealthy with taxpayer money.

 

Here's Wilkes former life as a CIA financier of black bag operations

to introduce him, from Cannonfire:

 

Much evidence supports the contention that Wilkes became a

Legitimate Businessman in one of the networks outlined above: He was

not of the Agency, in the sense of drawing a regular paycheck, but he

became one of those " outside " businessmen who prospered by aiding the

Agency, or a faction within it.

 

According to the San Diego Union Tribune, one of his early

business ventures was very, very noteworthy:

 

Wilkes had moved to Washington, D.C., and opened a business named

World Finance Corp. about three blocks away from the White House. One

of his chief activities, sources say, was to accompany congressmen --

including then-Rep. Bill Lowery of San Diego, whom Wilkes met during

his participation in the SDSU Young Republicans organization - to

Central America to meet with Foggo and Contra leaders.

 

WFC still exists: http://www.downtownaugusta.com/...

 

ADCS, the company Wilkes headquartered in Poway, was founded on

software designed by a German firm called VPMax. I think we should see

VPMax's role in this as analogous to that of the Romanian concern

which provided those wool uniforms to Saddam Hussein. As I suggested

earlier, Wilkes empire is largely a collection of false fronts built

on a small foundation of " real " products, usually taken from other,

smaller players.

 

And from there, we enter the current scandal. About which, more to

come soon.

 

Now Cannonfire on the current scandal:

 

Wilkes' firms received millions of taxpayer dollars; Daniel

Hopsicker puts the amount at $700 million, although mainstream

journalists speak of a much lower figure. Regardless of the amount,

sources agree that the Defense Department did not really like or need

his document conversion services. And Wilkes' list of companies

included obvious fakes.

 

Defense contracts are a matter of public record. A reader named

John Dean (no, not the Watergate-related John Dean) has been going

through some of the records related to Wilkes -- a job which ought to

be done by congressional investigators. On one form, the given address

does not relate to the massive Wilkes complex on Stowe Avenue in

Poway. Instead, the address is 15092 Avenue of Science, San Diego CA

92128,

 

That, we are told, is the address of a defense firm called Mirror

Labs, allegedly a leading firm in the field of testing military

equipment. They are referenced in this edition of the Homeland Defense

Journal. Their website, we are told, is www.mirrorlabs.com.

 

That URL goes nowhere. Google has no cache of anything ever being

there.

 

However, this archive page reveals that they once did have a site

up, from 2001 to early 2004, at which point the firm, such as it was,

seems to have become defunct. The web pages speak of a company with

branches in Virigina and Panama. But the only satisfied customers

mentioned are a couple of small-ish private companies (real companies)

who had some software beta-tested. Google presents no external

evidence that a San Diego company named Mirror Labs has ever done

anything related to defense, or that it had Virginia and Panama branches.

 

A background check on www.mirrorlabs.com shows that the URL

address was registered by Group W Media, Wilkes' fake ad agency. The

listed administrative contact is PerfectWave Techonologies, another

fake company.)

 

I believe that, for all practical purposes, there is no Mirror

Labs, although a firm by that name may well have performed an actual

service at one time. So where did the money go? When that nice fat

check filled with taxpayer dollars was sent to 15092 Avenue of

Science, who opened it? And what did they do with the money? Here is

the organization that really has -- or had -- offices at that address:

ADCS PAC! That's where the money went.

 

Apparently, Wilkes felt queasy about housing his PAC at the same

address as ADCS proper, so he set up a small office in a San Diego

business park. Someone must have put down the wrong address on one of

the applications.

 

So which candidates got chunks of that taxpayer money earmarked

for " defense " ?

 

Henry Bonilla, Roy Brown, Rick Clayburgh, Duke Cunningham (of

course!), John T. Doolittle, Maria Guadalupe Garcia, George W. Gekas,

Lindsay Graham, Duncan Hunter, Darrell Issa, Samuel Johnson, Thaddeus

G. McCotter, Constance Morella, Devin Nune, Steve Pearce, Bill Van de

Weghe Jr., Jerry Weller.

 

All Republicans, of course. As the scandal unfolds, the pundits

will try to convince us that " both sides do it. " That simply is not true.

 

The donations amounted only to $5000 or so. But ADCS Pac was

hardly the only mechanism by which Wilkes could distribute the

Christmas candy. Remember, Perfect Wave Technologies, Pure Aqua

Technologies, Group W. Advisors and other " subsidiaries " were also

used as funding mechanisms.

 

By keeping the donations small, and by maintaining the illusion

that the donors are numerous, the conspirators could line many a

pocket with relative safety. Clever, eh?

 

Other recipients of Wilkes' largesse: President Bush, Katherine

Harris, Tom Delay, Virgil Goode Jr. and Elizabeth Dole...

 

And then there's Republican Appropriations Committee Chairman

Jerry Lewis, who ordered continued funding of ADCS even after the DOD

raised objections.

 

Obviously, Hunter and Lewis must go under the microscope. Even so,

you're missing the point if you waste much time castigating the

above-named politicians for receiving the money. What is significant

is the device itself -- using " false fronts " to translate

IRS-collected revenues into Republican campaign commercials.

 

Much evidence indicates that Wilkes is but one of many villains

involved with such schemes.

 

http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/

 

While I believe that the Wilkes Corporation (also known as ADCS

and Group W Advisors) intended to hire enough people to give his firm

a more convincing veneer of legitimacy, the available evidence

indicates that Wilkes' company existed primarily as a way-station for

political pay-offs.

 

Remember the go-go days of the internet? Remember when a snazzy

web page could make a tiny, under-financed company appear to be a

massive conglomerate -- even when the firm conducted little actual

business?

 

Update that scenario to the post-9/11 era, and you have the Wilkes

corporation. Apparently, they did provide the military with document

services -- which means, basically, that they scanned a lot of

hard-copy pages that had been yellowing in file drawers. For example

-- and this may be the only example -- ADCS worked on a project

involving digitizing documents related to the building of the Panama

Canal.

 

...

 

Is the Pentagon truly willing to pay three-quarters of a billion

dollars to anyone who wants to run some old docs through a scanner? I

know quite a few people who would volunteer to take that gig...

 

I still have yet to discover any evidence that the other

" defense-related " enterprises operating under the Wilkes umbrella were

genuine businesses. " Group W Media, " the advertising agency with no

discernable clients, was a front for something -- I don't yet know

what. " Group W Transportation " amounted to a time-share arrangement

involving a Lear jet. " Al Dust Properties " and " Group W Holdings "

supposedly owned properties -- but I can't trace any holdings beyond

the impressive building which the Wilkes Corporation called home.

(It's now up for auction, by the way.) MailSafe Inc. supposedly offers

" mail decontamination, digital capture, and electronic distribution to

government and commercial entities. " But the web site has disappeared,

and the company seems to have left zero imprint on corporate America.

Where is the evidence that it actually provided any services to clients?

 

" PerfectWave Technologies " has (or had) what seems, at first, to

be an impressive web page advertising speech recognition devices for

the military. (That page is really little more than a ghost, since the

official Wilkes Corp. site no longer points to it.) Look closer: The

site does not specify any PerfectWave products. Neither do we

encounter any named personnel or development teams. No order

information. If this company makes battlefield-ready high-tech

equipment, why doesn't the the web site mention any departments,

managers or employees? All we get is a single phone number and a fax

number. Now conduct a Google search: Aside from channeling funds to

politicians, PerfectWave hasn't done anything to warrant a mention.

 

" Pure Aqua Technologies " another Wilkes operation, seems to be

pure snake oil. No address, no telephone number, no nothing -- except

this stupid web page, which is a joke.

 

This from a Kossak, LieparDestin:

 

And thats when things start to get interesting for me. Take a look

at the Group W Media site again. For an advertising firm, thats

like... no substance. No nothing. Just a single phone number and a

mysterious login form.

 

Then take a look at another site owned by Wilkes, this time a

company by the name of Archer Logistics. Noting any similarities? A

little substance, a smokescreen mostly. No employee names, ceo names,

nothing.

 

On to Acoustical Communication Systems. A bit more substance to

this company on first glance, but after a mere look around you'll

notice its all filler. No news, no employee names, no nothing. A

Google or two will turn up that this and other companies listed,

apparently never did anything of substance at all. Notice the address

of 13970 Stowe Drive

 

Poway, CA 92064, the same as that Group W Media and ADCS.

 

How about Liberty Defense Tech.

 

AkamaiInfo Tech thanks to archive.org is a bit interesting merely

for the fact that the name is so similar to that of Akamai Tech, who's

CEO was on one of the flights that crashed into the WTC.

 

Now my favorite so far is PerfectWave Technologies Look at that

site! Fancy Smancy, at first glance you think you have something.

Second glance even. But try one more time, notice the address: LOCATION

 

13970 Stowe Drive, Poway, CA 92064. Notice the lack ways to

contact them. Lack of employee information or any media releases, etc.

Google and turn up nothing from this company except donations to

the GOP. All these high-level companies, all in this 11 million

dollar building , but at the same time this article says that only 100

people work at the building. But anyhow, more on PerfectWave.

Political Money Line has these contributions listed:

 

Gelwix, Max D

 

5/12/2004 $1,000.00

 

Poway, CA 92064

 

Perfect Wave/Pres/CEO [Contribution]

 

RELY ON YOUR BELIEFS FUND

 

2 . Gelwix, Max D

 

9/26/2003 $1,000.00

 

Poway, CA 92064

 

Perfect Wave/Pres/CEO [Contribution]

 

FUTURE LEADERS PAC

 

3 . Gelwix, Max D.

 

6/9/2004 $2,500.00

 

Poway, CA 92064

 

Perfect Wave Technoligies/President [Contribution]

 

REFORM PAC

 

4 . Gelwix, Max D.

 

8/14/2003 $5,000.00

 

Poway, CA 92064

 

Perfect Wave/Pres/CEO [Contribution]

 

AMERICANS FOR A REPUBLICAN MAJORITY POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

 

5 . GELWIX, MAX P MR.

 

6/26/2003 $2,000.00

 

POWAY, CA 92064

 

PERFECT WAVE/COO [Contribution]

 

BUSH-CHENEY '04 (PRIMARY) INC

 

Try using the same site to search for ADCS, Wilkes (Brent and

Regina), MZM etc.

 

Now I dont know if Im misinterpreting all this but to me it looks

like: Wilkes and Co payoff Cunningham to get them DOD contracts.

Wilkes and Co (guessing) subcontract these to whomever it is they

subcontract them to, and skim a load off the top, funneling it into

dummy business's to turn around and donate it to the GOP & GOP related

causes.

 

Oh almost forgot the oddest for last The Poway Mafia. Another site

owned by Wilkes. Definately creepy.

 

Most of Wilkes Companies, when you go into those sites above, HAVE THE

SAME ADDRESS AND EVEN HAVE THE SAME FAX NUMBER: 858-848-0400!! They

are obviously fake fronts for laundering taxpayer money into GOP TV ads.

 

Now Mitchell Wade, from Cannonfire:

 

unlike Wilkes, kept the MZM Pac housed in the very same office.

(We must presume that they didn't have a great deal of office space,

since unrelated tenants are in the same building.) When we look at the

data on MZM Pac and its activities in 2003-2004, we learn that the

population of this company has grown by leaps and bounds.

 

The PAC now lists roughly 100 names. A close scan of the names

indicates that wives and children were recruited to the cause -- the

cause being, of course, donations to G.O.P. candidates. (One of the

named donors is " Joe Dollar. " That can't be real -- can it?) Nearly

all the donors are listed as employees of MZM Inc., and many have

grandiose titles -- Chairman of this, VP of that. MZM employees, we

learn, were told they had to make the donations or be fired. I believe

there are laws against that sort of thing.

 

Frankly, I'm not at all sure how MZM transformed itself from a

two-man law office into a go-go defense and intelligence firm.

 

For that, it would seem, is the final incarnation of MZM.

According to the Center for Public Integrity

 

MZM Inc. is a high-tech national security firm based in

Washington, D.C. The private firm provides intelligence gathering,

technology and homeland security analysis and consulting for both

international and domestic governments and private-sector clients. The

firm also provides consulting on political and public message

strategies. Its government clients include Congress, the White House,

the Defense Department, the U.S. intelligence community, the Foreign

Terrorist Tracking Task Force and state and local governments,

according to the company's Web site. MZM refused to provide any

information, however, about its corporate structure, including names

of other principals.

 

In addition to its D.C. headquarters, MZM has field offices in

Miami, Tampa, San Antonio, San Diego and Suffolk, Va. The company

employs about 70 people.

 

Following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center

and the Pentagon, MZM expanded its counterintelligence and national

security efforts. It soon experienced an influx of government

contracts. The company now predicts a growth rate of more than 35

percent in the 2003 fiscal year. Mitchell Wade, president and CEO,

reportedly expects to increase sales from $25 million to $120 million

and to hire 230 more employees over the next five years. Wade told the

Richmond Times-Dispatch that recently the company has " come out of a

flat period " with defense industry contracts.

 

In September 2003, MZM collaborated with 16 other

organizations, called the General Dynamics team, as part of a

five-year, $252 million contract to provide engineering and

information warfare services to the Air Force Information Warfare

Center at Lackland Airforce Base in Texas.

 

In November 2002, MZM opened a computer center in

Charlottesville, Va., to house classified engineering intelligence in

a digital mapping and architecture analysis system. Twelve employees

in that office are developing the program for the Pentagon. It is

designed to provide digital maps of thousands of buildings worldwide.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that the mapping system will help

soldiers and planners know details of buildings -- even which way

doors open and close.

 

At least we are given some indication of what the firm actually

does. The data page goes on to name a number of individuals involved

with this work -- intelligence analysts, generals, the kind of people

whom we would expect to be involved with such an enterprise.

Cornelison seems to have disappeared.

 

But how much of this data is on the level? One would think that so

august a firm would have a web site. However, the listed URL --

www.mzinc.com -- is blank, as is Google's cache for that page.

Interestingly, Dean found an MZM contract with the DOD dated February

13, 2003 in which MZM states that it has zero employees and zero

revenue. The contract is for a mere $12,740,000.

 

http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/

 

Update [2005-12-10 12:47:8 by Sherlock Google]: Found out more about

MZM being investigated for intelligence work for the agency that

cooked the aluminum tubes story, used as an excuse to invade Iraq.

From the Washington Post:

 

The NGIC is a critical Army intelligence center with a staff of

900, three-quarters of whom are civilian scientists, engineers and

intelligence analysts. The other one-quarter are active military.

 

Most NGIC employees work at a relatively new facility near

Charlottesville, where they produce the Army's primary intelligence

analyses of foreign armies, their force structures and capabilities.

Others conduct scientific and technical studies on foreign weapons and

technologies.

 

The NGIC, which is facing an inquiry by the director of national

intelligence for its prewar mistakes in analyzing Iraq's weapons

programs, has been drawn into the federal investigations of MZM,

according to Army and Justice Department spokesmen.

 

The NGIC was criticized in March by the Silberman-Robb

presidential commission for " gross failure " in its analysis of Iraqi

arms. The commission said the center was " completely wrong " when it

found in September 2002 that the aluminum tubes Iraq was purchasing

were " highly unlikely " to be used for rocket motor cases.

 

That inaccurate finding bolstered a CIA contention that the tubes

were meant for nuclear centrifuges and were evidence that Iraqi

President Saddam Hussein was reconstituting a nuclear weapons program.

Two NGIC analysts who produced the inaccurate finding have received

annual performance awards each year since 2002. Officials said the

bonuses were for their overall activities.

 

Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the deputy director of national

intelligence, told reporters June 29 that his office would conduct its

own inquiry into the Silberman-Robb finding.

 

When Parker, the center spokeswoman, was asked last week about

Rich, his son and NGIC personnel going to work for MZM or MZM

employees working at the NGIC, she said in a statement that " due to

the ongoing investigation on MZM, we must refer all questions

concerning MZM, its employees and activities " to the Justice Department.

 

The MZM investigation is being carried out by the FBI, the Defense

Criminal Investigative Service, the Internal Revenue Service and the

U.S. attorney's offices in the District of Columbia and San Diego,

according to one law enforcement official. That official would not say

where the intelligence center may fit in.

 

MZM Involvement in Aluminum Tubes LIE!

 

Update [2005-12-10 16:54:41 by Sherlock Google]: Found by

Rockmoonwater downthread, here is a look at the Group W/Perfect Wave

Lobbying Report in which they report less than $10,000 income for

Group W. Looks fishy, less than $10,000. Also shows how they split

everything up at Group W to no doubt avoid certain disclosure.

 

Group W Lobby Reports and Registrations

 

These Wilkes and MZM companies were mostly frauds, bull, a sham,

counterfeit, simulated, false. They were fronts to collect quid pro

quo contracts from fellow GOP wingnuts.

 

The taxpayer money went straight from the US Treasury to the Wilkes

and MZM PACS and from there cycled back to the GOP campaigns and the

GOP K Street Cartel.

 

All the while, DoD never asked for these contracts and even complained

about ADCS and was ignored!

 

Kudos to LieparDestin on this one, whose diary scrolled off before we

could realize what Cannonfire and this John Dean fellow had uncovered.

 

Oh and RECOMMEND like you've never recommended before. Read it out

loud to your family and friends for fun and enjoyment. Send the link

to blogs, lists, etc. We need a Blog Swarm!

 

Update [2005-12-11 17:14:40 by Sherlock Google]: A house staffer, Eric

Massa, said this is what is going on and explained further when asked

if the phony front companies were true: " This has been going on since

" K Street "

 

Yep, the scam works just the way that the San Diego union has been

reporting it in the Cunningham case. First, a member of Congress slips

a " member add " into the budget (wether appropriations or

authorization) and then once that money comes through for the company

- the pay offs begin. It has now been laid bare by Cunningham and I

suspect that there will be others involved. The interesting point is

that this will be a Republican issue in that they control both Houses

of Congress and therefore have total and complete control over the

budget process. In fact, the Republican leadership under Delay have

told companies that if the talk to Members on both the sides of the

isle then they cannot request anything from the Republicans - and

since they are calling the shots 100% of the time in the budget

process then they write out any company that even talks to a Democrat.

It's all very public and very out there and will only be more so now

that Cunningham has admitted to the entire scam. Stand by for more

from that case

 

Massa added another comment that Rumsfeld could be taken down too by

all this.

 

Rumsfeld is Fungible

 

Update [2005-12-11 19:12:36 by Sherlock Google]: Delay got Wilkes' money:

 

Cunningham case casts new light on donations

 

Tags: Brent Wilkes, Tom Delay, Group W, Poway Mafia, Duke Cunningham,

John Doollittle (all tags)