Long Hot Summer in Washington forecast

Deborah J. (Jeane) Palfrey’s assets and entire life’s savings were seized by the Internal Revenue Service, on October 4, 2006, without notice.(Filing 12/6/06)

There is wild, inaccurate, and wholly unfounded speculation that this has some mild connection with resignation of Kyle"Dusty" Foggo and Porter Goss going off to spend more time with his money in May 2006 - "Hookergate" and his friend Brent Wilkes, founder of ADCS who bribed Randall Cunningham along with Mitchell J Wade of MZM Inc. Not to mention some lissom ladies from the CIS states with short skirts and shorter memories but modestly familiar with the Watergate Complex and Westin Hotels.

Looks like it will be a long hot summer.

Congressman with frozen assets heads for the cooler.

Congressman Jefferson, 59, whose constituency covers much of New Orleans, the nattily dressed, Harvard-educated congressman, was the first black elected to Congress in Louisiana since the civil war, last year he was was criticised for using a National Guard escort to retrieve possessions from his home after Hurricane Katrina. Apparently after spending an hour in his house he emerged with . "with a laptop computer, three suitcases, and a box about the size of a small refrigerator" which he took away.

In the past few months, two people have pleaded guilty to bribing the eight-term congressman to promote iGate Inc., a Kentucky-based high-tech company that sought broadband business in Africa owned by Vernon L. Jackson. On May 9th a search warrant executed Aug. 3 at the Potomac home of Jennifer Douglas, a wife of Nigerian Vice President Atiku became known.

In January, Brett Pfeffer, a former Jefferson aide, who was looking for investments for Mody, pleaded guilty to bribing Jefferson. He was sentenced to 8 years in prison on Friday 27th May 2006 by U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III in Alexandria, Virginia..

Mody, the court document indicates, "was defrauded out of $3.5 million by persons connected to the case," She is a well known , vivaceous, blonde and wealthy Virginia businesswoman and philanthropist with an investment vehicle W2 mentioned in the case. (Pic may or may not be Lori Mody .. tasty lady)

After meeting Lori Mody, with whom he was secretly dealing, to promote high-tech ventures in Cameroon, Ghana and Nigeria at a hotel in Virginia . Miss Mody who was wearing an FBI wire handed Congressman Jefferson a briefcase containing US$100,000 in marked notes

US$90,000 in $100 bills of this marked money ended up in plastic sandwich boxes in his freezer.... maybe the same one he collected from his NOLA home ?

About 15 FBI agents, wearing suits, entered Jefferson’s office in the Rayburn House Office Building about 7:15 p.m. Saturday 25th May 2006 and left about 1 p.m. yesterday on the trail of at least 7 bribery cases involving Jefferson, the first time that federal officials had raided a congressman's headquarters which a lot of pompous lawmakers got excited about ... the Executive was attacking the immunity of Congress etc., That it happily diverted attention from Rove, De Lay, Abramoff, Safavian, Libby, Randy Cunningham, Hookergate, Plamegate, the Haditha massacre warrants the careful examination of Miss Lori Mody and her contacts within the Republican Party .. or maybe the lady just objected to losing US$3.5 Mn in this tangled tale.

Ghanian Diplomatic gossip says she was suckered .... but she was not evidently a dumb blonde.

Porter Goss - Hookergate ?

BILL KRISTOL / Weekly Standard on Fox News today

"… I do think this was sudden. It was unexpected. There will be more of a story that will come out."

Porter Goss to spend more time with his money ?

Shirlington Limousine and Transportation of Arlington, Virginia.

You are going to hear more of them , a company favoured by Brent Wilkes, founder of ADCS who bribed Randall Cunningham along with Mitchell J Wade of MZM Inc. Not to mention some lissom ladies from the CIS states with short skirts and shorter memories.

The CEO of Shirlington Christopher D Baker, has a 62-page rap sheet from 1979 through 1989 , petty larceny, robbery, receiving stolen goods, assault, and more. Curiously—or perhaps not so curiously given the company's connections—Shirlington Limousine is also a Department of Homeland Security contractor; according to Wapo last yearit obtained a $21.2 million contract for shuttle services and transportation support...including limo service for senior officials.

Watergate Hotel and Westin Grand are said to be the realms of Hookergate, poker parties and general frat house baccanalia... that is according to Mitchell J. Wade, who told prosecutors that Wilkes had an arrangement with Shirlington Limousine, which in turn had an arrangement with at least one escort service, one source said. Wade said limos would pick up Cunningham and a prostitute and bring them to suites Wilkes maintained at the Watergate Hotel and the Westin Grand in Washington, the source said.... and other senior people.

Former Congressman Bob Barr (R-GA) was on CNN today and hinted at further revelations ...

Reporter: So why is President Bush accepting Porter Goss's resignation? What do you make of the timing of it?

Bob Barr: I think there's going to be more coming out. We don't know the whole story...

We've seen brewing out of the congressman Duke Cunningham scandal, probably now for several months. It's starting to reach into the CIA and that come very... well... like a sore that's been festering, that could very well burst out and maybe that's a reach into the top levels of the agency.

Then he went on to deny personal involvement by Porter but perhaps re-inforced the story that Goss refused to discipline some junior staff (Kyle "Dusty" Foggo ) at the insistence of the White House.

Foggo oversaw contracts involving at least one of the companies accused of paying Cunningham. He is a longtime friend of Brent Wilkes, referred to as co-conspirator No. 1 in government documents filed in the Cunningham investigation. The two played high school football and were in each other's weddings.

Of course if photographs from Silverstein are circulating ....

Of course given the capcity of Hill insiders to spout bollocks at times like this ...

1. Porter Goss was upset over Negroponte, the director of national intelligence, grabbing what used to be the CIA director’s role and responsibilities.See excellent TIME magazine story. They say Negroponte's assistant Air Force General Michael Hayden will be announced as Goss's successor on Monday 7th May 2006.

2.Porter Goss used to be a 14th District Florida Congressman, Goss is going to run for the US Senate against Katherine Harris in the GOP primary and Bill Nelson in the general. FL filing deadline is next week and FL GOP has been looking for alternative to Harris.

Pic ? Foggo ... looking mighty pleased... that smile like the Cheshire cat's will fade pretty quickly.