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It Started with the Bribery Indictment of California Rep. Randall “Duke” Cunningham, but Before It's Over, a Sprawling Special Report It started with the bribery indictment of California Rep. Randall “Duke” Cunningham, but before it’s over, a sprawling investigation into a Pentagon contractor called MZM could snare some of Washington’s most powerful inside players FALL GUY. Contractor Mitchell Wade leaving court. The FBI wants to know more about his corrupt dealings with Congress. CHARLIE ARCHAMBAULT FOR USN≀ (INSET) SUSAN WALSH—AP Special Report By Chitra Ragavan n the fall of 2003, an influential Washington defense contractor named Mitchell Wade was shooting the bull with Haig Melkessetian, a senior executive in his company, at their elegant office not far from the White House. “Haig,’’ Wade de- clared, “I have a good deal for us.’’ The contractor enthusiastically laid out his plan: His good friend, Randall “Duke’’ Cunningham, a decorated Viet- nam War fighter pilot, was planning to lead a congressional delegation to Saudi Arabia on a mission to help Saudi offi- cials improve their image in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Melkessetian, a former Army Special Forces soldier and Arabic linguist, was taken aback. “I can’t be on both sides of the fence,’’ he told Wade, noting that their company, mzm Inc., was heavily involved in Prosecutors are using information from Melkessetian and major counterterrorism projects with the Defense Department. his mzm colleagues to test Wade’s veracity, to track cash or “Don’t start that ideological crap with me,’’ Wade snapped, other assets he may be hiding, and to recommend the length according to Melkessetian’s account. “I’m not here for ideol- of his prison sentence. The mzm employees have told inves- ogy. I’m here to make money.’’ tigators that they were unaware of Wade’s corrupt acts, but as And make money he did—a cool $150 million in government Melkessetian puts it, they suspected he was “up to no good.” contracts since 2002. But Wade’s road to riches was one that Today, the fbi, the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, would ultimately lead him to jail and ignominy, and, along the and the Defense Security Service are working with prosecu- way, to a prison term for one lawmaker and still more criminal tors to put the finishing touches on indictments against sev- charges, in the next few days or weeks, against some of the most eral other defense contractors, and senior defense and intel- influential insiders in the nation’s capital. Melkessetian, now a ligence officials, who helped Wade with his corrupt activities. consultant for a U.S. intelligence agency, is helping federal prosecutors in a massive cor- ruption investigation involving Wade, mzm, The rise and fall of Mitch Wade offers a rare and Cunningham. The former eight-term Re- publican congressman from California pleaded guilty last No- “We have been looking at everybody that’s involved,’’ says a vember to accepting more than $2.4 million in bribes and favors federal law enforcement official. “Anytime you talk about de- from Wade; his mentor, Brent Wilkes, a San Diego-based defense fense contracting, it’s a huge spider web.” contractor; and two other “unindicted coconspirators.” Although Wilkes has not been charged, the government al- “A huge spider web.” Cunningham “earmarked” millions of leges that he gave more than $630,000 in bribes, gifts, and fa- dollars in defense projects for Wade and Wilkes in a manner vors to Cunningham, and investigators now are trying to de- so brazen federal prosecutors called it “unparalleled” in the termine whether he obtained federal contracts through a high long, sordid history of congressional corruption. Cunningham school buddy, Kyle “Dusty” Foggo, the former No. 3 official now is serving an eight-year prison term, while Wade, 46, has at the cia. Foggo resigned in May. His attorney has said that pleaded guilty to paying Cunningham more than $1 million in Foggo broke no laws. Investigators are also probing whether bribes and is cooperating with prosecutors. Wade’s sentenc- Wilkes provided limo services, hotel suites, and prostitutes to ing has been postponed until next March. He faces a maximum Cunningham. Wilkes is not cooperating with investigators. prison term of 135 months. He declined to be interviewed for “Every single allegation is false, will be fought, and my client this account, as did his attorneys. will be vindicated,” says his attorney, Nancy Luque. 56 U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT • WWW.USNEWS.COM • SEPTEMBER 25, 2006 to win classified government projects for a decade, during which time he had no active se- curity clearance. l Wade made it appear that his employees were working for federal agencies in order to obtain their security clearances and used his connec- tions to expedite them, mzm sources say. He urged employees not to disclose trips abroad, as required by law, and failed to disclose person- al assets in Panama, another legal infraction. l Wade had a highly classified Pentagon bud- get document lying on his desk. Prosecutors say Wade’s extraordinary access gave him “insight” into the Defense Department’s “bargaining po- sition” and allowed mzm to “squeeze top dol- lar” out of a key proposal. l Wade’s close ties to former senior officials of a Pentagon agency, the Counterintelligence Field Activity, or cifa, which helps identify and thwart terrorists and spies, are also being ex- amined. So is his relationship with a defense contractor called Gray Hawk Systems Inc. Gray Hawk obtained several lucrative and ques- tionable contracts from cifa, which it then shared with mzm. Three senior cifa officials with influence over the contracting process left the agency and joined Gray Hawk. The com- SPY GUY. A former pany’s owner, Harry “Pete” Howton, sold it last MZM executive now year for $100 million cash and has since cre- working for a U.S. ated a new company, Kingfisher Systems Inc. intelligence agency, Through Gray Hawk, Wade won tens of mil- Haig Melkessetian is lions of dollars in subcontracts on cifa work. helping untangle the Investigators believe Wade sought out insiders murky MZM mess. at cifa for tips on upcoming agency projects, which he then used to craft earmarks for Cun- CHARLIE ARCHAMBAULT FOR USN&WR ningham, who allegedly inserted them into ap- A two-month U.S. News investigation, based on a review of propriations bills and then pressured Pentagon officials to hundreds of pages of court documents, private internal mzm award the contracts to Gray Hawk and mzm. Howton, the for- records, and detailed interviews with a dozen key officials, mer ceo of Gray Hawk and current ceo of Kingfisher, did not shows how Wade used his connections on Capitol Hill and in- return phone calls seeking comment. side the Pentagon to gather inside information and turn his Wade’s security violations are extraordinarily serious, given company into a moneymaking juggernaut. Melkessetian and cifa’s sensitive mission and the fact that officials from for- other key mzm executives provided the magazine significant eign countries came to mzm to do business. “You are throw- new details of Wade’s influence-peddling operation. The mag- ing chum out there to attract the sharks, who are going to prey azine’s review also revealed fundamental flaws in the govern- on what you are doing,” says the former head of the Justice De- ment’s national-security contracting procedures and showed partment’s counterespionage section, John Martin. “And you how Wade risked compromising sensitive government secrets. are inviting penetrations of your company.” glimpse into the cutthroat, billion-dollar world of big-time defense At the fbi, the cia, and the Pentagon, senior contractors and exposes some of the officials are conducting wide-ranging damage assessments related to the mzm inquiry. The arcane system’s most glaring flaws. chairman of the House Select Committee on In- telligence, Republican Peter Hoekstra of Michi- The inquiry’s principal findings: gan, has also asked an independent investigator, Michael l Despite having access to some of the nation’s most sensitive Stern, to conduct a separate inquiry into Cunningham’s ac- secrets, Wade refused to submit paperwork for a background tivities while he served on the intelligence committee. Stern, check to update his top-secret security clearance and had not congressional sources say, has found that Cunningham cor- undergone a background investigation since 1996, mzm rupted the awarding of intelligence contracts, much the same sources say. Such background checks, required by law every way he did military contracts. The leaders of the intelligence five years, include financial reviews. Pentagon investigators committee are now debating whether to subpoena Cunning- knew that Wade’s clearance had lapsed but did nothing about ham to testify. His attorney has said Cunningham would as- it, according to two former mzm officials. Wade continued sert his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination if U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT • WWW.USNEWS.COM • SEPTEMBER 25, 2006 57 Special Report he were subpoenaed. One question still unanswered: how the government allowed mzm to operate with so little oversight. “The cia and dod [the Department of Defense],” says Mar- tin, the former espionage prosecutor, “are equally responsible for what has gone wrong at mzm as mzm itself.” The fallout from the mzm affair is only just beginning. At the request of deputy under secretary of defense Stephen Cambone, the accounting firm Deloitte & Touche has completed an audit of mzm’s contracts at cifa. Cambone rejected a previous cifa in-house review, defense sources say. In August, cifa Director Dave Burtt resigned, citing personal reasons. He did not return a call from U.S. News. That same day, his deputy, Joseph Hef- feron, also retired, but his departure, he says, was “totally un- related” to the mzm inquiry.
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