{"id":122241,"date":"2022-01-27T10:36:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T15:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=122241"},"modified":"2022-01-27T10:36:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T15:36:43","slug":"fat-leonard-takes-down-one-more-navy-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=122241","title":{"rendered":"Fat Leonard takes down one more Navy officer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ninja sends in word from Navy Times that another Navy officer has plead guilty in the Fat Leonard scandal. From Navy Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Roughly a month before the start of the largest federal trial in the so-called \u201cFat Leonard\u201d scandal, another Navy officer pleaded guilty Wednesday to taking bribes from foreign defense contractor Leonard Glenn Francis in exchange for classified ship schedules and other information, the U.S. Justice Department announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Cmdr. Stephen Shedd, 48, pleaded guilty in a San Diego court to bribery charges and admitted that he and eight other Navy members \u201creceived more than $250,000 in meals, entertainment, travel and hotel expenses, gifts, cash and the services of prostitutes\u201d from Francis, the rotund port services magnate, His company, Glenn Defense Marine Asia, provided husbanding services to ships in the U.S. 7th Fleet for years, according to the Justice Department.<\/p>\n

Shedd and eight others were indicted in March 2017 for conspiring with and receiving bribes from Francis.<\/p>\n

He becomes the third of those original nine defendants to plead guilty ahead of the trial, which has been delayed several times and is now scheduled to begin on Feb. 28.<\/p>\n

The remaining six defendants accused of \u201cconspiring to trade military secrets and substantial influence\u201d in exchange for Fat Leonard\u2019s perks include Rear Adm. Bruce Loveless, Capts. David Newland, James Dolan, David Lausmann and Donald Hornbeck, and Cmdr. Mario Herrera.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department\u2019s investigation led to 34 Navy officials and defense contractors being charged, with 28 pleading guilty.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors say that the officials helped Francis win and maintain contracts, overbilling the Navy by more than $35 million in the process.<\/p>\n

Francis pleaded guilty in 2015 and has yet to be sentenced.<\/p>\n

According to Shedd\u2019s admissions laid out in his plea agreement, \u201cthe defendants took official acts and exerted pressure on, advocated before, and provided advice to other U.S. Navy officials, knowing and intending that such advocacy would form the basis for such other officials\u2019 decisions to pay GDMA\u2019s claims, overlook inflated invoices, quash bid protests filed by GDMA\u2019s competitors, suppress competition in contract awards, and resolve in GDMA\u2019s favor other questions, matters, and controversies regarding GDMA\u2019s husbanding business,\u201d the Justice Department stated.<\/p>\n

Shedd served as 7th Fleet\u2019s South Asia policy and planning officer from 2006 to 2008 and later as the executive and commanding officer of the guided-missile destroyer Milius from 2011 to 2014.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe defendant has admitted he was one of the many whose allegiance was switched from the Navy to Leonard Francis,\u201d U.S. Attorney Randy Grossman said in a statement. \u201cThis abdication of the defendant\u2019s duties to the Navy and the United States comes with heavy consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shedd is scheduled to be sentenced July 21.<\/p>\n

His attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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