{"id":151053,"date":"2023-12-21T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T17:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=151053"},"modified":"2023-12-21T12:10:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T17:10:31","slug":"extradited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=151053","title":{"rendered":"Extradited!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nFat Leonard<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018Fat Leonard,\u2019 fugitive in Navy bribery case, facing extradition to US<\/h3>\n

By Lolita C. Baldor and Julie Watson<\/strong><\/p>\n

The extradition of convicted defense contractor Leonard \u201cFat Leonard\u201d Francis to the United States as part of the Venezuelan prisoner swap on Wednesday is the latest twist in a decade-long salacious saga and bribery scheme that swept up dozens of American Navy officers.<\/p>\n

One of the biggest bribery investigations in U.S. military history led to the conviction and sentencing of nearly two dozen Navy officials, defense contractors and others on various fraud and corruption charges. And it was punctuated by Francis\u2019 daring escape last year, when he fled from house arrest at his San Diego home to South America.<\/p>\n

An enigmatic figure, Francis owned and operated his family\u2019s ship servicing business, Singapore-based Glenn Defense Marine Asia Ltd. or GDMA, which supplied food, water and fuel to vessels. The Malaysian defense contractor was a key contact for U.S. Navy ships at ports across Asia for more than two decades. During that time he wooed naval officers with Kobe beef, expensive cigars, concert tickets and wild sex parties at luxury hotels from Thailand to the Philippines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Navy<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s done. The Fat Leonard saga has been long and vastly amusing but all good things must end. It took a Presidential drug deal to get him back from Caracas. Venezuela turned him over in a prisoner exchange where Sleepy Joe granted clemency to a prominent moneyman for President for Life Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. He swapped a prisoner accused of illegally moving hundreds of millions of dollars for the Venezuelan regime in exchange for Fat Leonard, who’s real sin was embarrassing the regime we have here.<\/p>\n

Then again Fat Leonard has been full of surprises, hasn’t he? Thanks to all who sent this one in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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