Almost every day, Brent Wilkes’ defense attorney, Mark Geragos, has been complaining about how hard he’s been working on his client’s defense. Your honor I was up till two in the morning last night. Your honor I need another day to prepare. Your honor, the prosecution dumped all these documents on me. And so on.

The prosecution wrapped up its case on Wednesday. The judge made it clear that Geragos had to start his defense the following day. So what was he doing the night before?

Talking to Dr. Phil about how to defend accused child rapist Chester Stiles, WHO’S NOT EVEN HIS CLIENT. See for yourself:

And I thought I heard him say during jury selection how seriously he takes the responsibility of having a man’s life in his hands. Wilkes is facing 14 counts of money laundering, fraud, conspiracy, and bribery. C’mon, Mark! Brent, are you reading this?

Mitch Wade would write these little notations on his checks to Duke like this one, which mentions something about advertising:

He explained the reason for this in court.

It was so he could deduct the bribe as a business expense!

Not long after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, Randy “Duke” Cunningham redirected $4 million in terrorism dollars at the request of Brent Wilkes and Mitch Wade, the two guys who were bribing him (allegedly, in Wilkes’ case).

The money went to pay for a bullshit document-scanning program called Global Data Infrastructure Capture.

Mitch Wade boasted about it in Dec. 31, 2001 status report to Wilkes, who was then paying Wade hundreds of thousands of dollars for this kind of work:

This was Wade’s solution to the problem of a DoD official had been “playing games” with the money. In other words, it went to somebody else, for something more worthwhile.

There’s been a lot of testimony about The Capital Grille in D.C. As I mentioned earlier, one of the first trial witnesses was a waiter, who said Duke’s 15 percent tips made him a “typical congressman.” Yesterday, one witness estimated, conservatively, that Brent Wilkes spent $150,000 dining with the Duke at the congressman’s favorite restaurant.

Duke loved Silver Oak wine, which ran for about $100 a bottle. He kept his own private wine locker at the restaurant. So did Mitchell Wade, Wilkes and Wilkes’ best friend, Kyle Foggo, the executive director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Capital Grille diners worship wine, as seen by the restaurant’s “Wine Kiosk:”

Almost every witness has been asked about Duke Cunningham’s intelligence or the lack thereof. Cunningham’s main briber, Mitchell Wade, (no dummy himself) described the Duke as a man of below average intelligence. When Wade had to write out scripts for Cunningham so the congressman could bully Defense Department officials he had to spell everything out precisely even Duke’s name. Here’s an example: I (Duke)