{"id":135476,"date":"2022-12-30T17:03:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T22:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=135476"},"modified":"2022-12-30T17:03:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T22:03:12","slug":"cant-keep-a-fat-man-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=135476","title":{"rendered":"Can’t Keep a Fat Man Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\u201cFat Leonard\u201d Francis<\/em><\/p>\n

“Fat Leonard” needs no introduction. His crimes, confession, trial and confinement all have been somewhat gleefully reported here.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=131026<\/a><\/p>\n

Anyone who can scam The Navy for that much, that long is genius. Even better, the unbelievably naive confinement conditions he was granted, and his perfectly predictable escape days before facing sentencing for his crimes.<\/p>\n

It was a bit anti-climactic when he was nabbed by Interpol in Venezuela. Finally Fat Leonard will face justice and The Navy can put the entire embarrassing episode in its wake.<\/p>\n

Or will he?<\/p>\n

Three months after Fat Leonard escaped, feds remain mum on details<\/h3>\n

Federal government agencies have provided virtually no details about how fraud mastermind Leonard Francis lived under a medical furlough before escaping and fleeing to Venezuela in September.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

BY GREG MORAN<\/p>\n

Three months after the corrupt defense contractor known as \u201cFat Leonard\u201d brazenly, and easily, escaped from his luxury home detention arrangement in San Diego, the circumstances behind how the Malaysian tycoon pulled it off are still under wraps.<\/p>\n

Demands from members of the U.S. House and Senate for more details about Leonard Francis\u2019 embarrassing escape have been brushed off by the Department of Justice and met with silence from the Administrative Office of the Courts, which handles the nonjudicial, bureaucratic business for the federal courts.<\/p>\n

And last week, San Diego federal Judge Janis Sammartino, who oversaw Francis\u2019 unusual, yearslong medical furlough that allowed him to live outside of jail, rebuffed a demand from defense lawyers for more details about Francis\u2019 health and living conditions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho was or wasn\u2019t responsible for Leonard Francis\u2019 supervision and monitoring is not the issue,\u201d Joseph Mancano, the lawyer for convicted retired Capt. David Newland, told Sammartino during a hearing Wednesday. Instead, he said, the issue was that the defense was entitled to that information before the trial, to show jurors that while Francis had been a cooperating witness for years, he was given extraordinary benefits by the government.<\/p>\n

Newland is one of four former Navy officers who were convicted of conspiracy and bribery charges at a lengthy trial this year. In post-trial motions, they said Francis\u2019 living conditions \u2014 renting a multimillion-dollar mansion in the Carmel Valley area, with servants, all the food he could afford, and what turned out to be lax security \u2014 should have been disclosed before trial. They also said Francis flouted conditions of his release that prohibited him from possessing cellphones, computers or electronic devices.<\/p>\n

For now, the questions surrounding Francis\u2019 escape remain unanswered. After slicing off a GPS tracking bracelet early on the morning of Sept. 4, Francis fled across the border into Mexico. He continued on to Cuba and then Venezuela, where he was arrested by Interpol agents 16 days after his flight.<\/p>\n

Francis has asked for asylum there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

San Diego Union Tribune <\/a><\/p>\n

Oops. Another opportunity for the Biden Administration to excel on the world stage. Any Venezuelan warlords in a US prison somewhere?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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