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February 27, 2009

Ex-CIA Exec Director Gets 3-Year Jail Term in Bribe Case
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Back in the United States, the CIA’s former executive director has been
sentenced to more than three years in prison on wire fraud charges
related to accepting bribes. Kyle “Dusty” Foggo was the
third-highest-ranking official at the CIA until his resignation in 2006.
Federal prosecutors say he took $70,000 worth of gifts in exchange for
doling out lucrative CIA contracts. Foggo originally faced twenty-eight
charges, but prosecutors agreed to drop twenty-seven of them in exchange
for the guilty plea on wire fraud.



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