DOD Probed Wilkes in 2000

• By John Bresnahan
• Roll Call Staff
• March 9, 2006, Midnight

In mid-2000, five years before the bribery scheme run by former Rep. Duke Cunningham (R-Calif.) began to unravel, the Pentagon began a criminal investigation involving a defense contractor now implicated in the scandal, according to a Defense Department official and Justice Department documents.