{"id":157011,"date":"2024-05-24T10:05:49","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T14:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=157011"},"modified":"2024-05-23T19:48:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T23:48:38","slug":"five-fat-leonard-related-felony-convictions-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=157011","title":{"rendered":"Five Fat Leonard related felony convictions dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Fat-man-as-Fat-Leonard-digital-art-by-Bing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-157012\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Fat-man-as-Fat-Leonard-digital-art-by-Bing-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Fat-man-as-Fat-Leonard-digital-art-by-Bing-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Fat-man-as-Fat-Leonard-digital-art-by-Bing-333x333.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Fat-man-as-Fat-Leonard-digital-art-by-Bing-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Fat-man-as-Fat-Leonard-digital-art-by-Bing-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Fat-man-as-Fat-Leonard-digital-art-by-Bing.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three retired Navy officers and one retired Marine officer pleaded guilty to disclosing information, a misdemeanor charge. One Navy officer saw his case thrown out. A judge dismissed their felony convictions. The government asked for these dismissals due to prosecutorial errors.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>From ABC News:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It marked the latest setback to the government&#8217;s yearslong efforts in going after dozens of military officials tied to defense contractor Leonard Francis, nicknamed &#8221; Fat Leonard.&#8221; The enigmatic figure &#8212; who was 6-foot-3 and weighed 350 pounds at one time &#8212; owned and operated Singapore-based Glenn Defense Marine Asia Ltd., which supplied food, water and fuel to U.S. Navy vessels.<\/p>\n<p>Francis is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to offering more than $500,000 in cash bribes, along with other gifts and wild sex parties in Southeast Asia, to Navy officials, defense contractors and others. The scheme allowed him to bilk the maritime service out of at least $35 million by getting commanders to redirect ships to ports he controlled and overcharging for services, according to the prosecution. He was arrested in 2013 in a sting operation in San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said in legal filings outlining their request for Tuesday&#8217;s dismissals that the action does not mean the defendants did not commit the charged crimes but because information was withheld from the defense and other mistakes were made, they wanted to ensure justice was served fairly.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, U.S. District Court Judge Janis Sammartino ruled the former lead federal prosecutor committed &#8220;flagrant misconduct&#8221; by withholding information from defense lawyers. In September, the felony convictions of four former Navy officers were also vacated. The four men pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and agreed to pay a $100 fine each.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Watson, J. (2024, May 21). Judge dismisses felony convictions of 5 retired military officers in US Navy bribery case. <em>ABC News<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/judge-dismisses-felony-convictions-5-retired-military-officers-110448428\">Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three retired Navy officers and one retired Marine officer pleaded guilty to disclosing information, a misdemeanor &hellip; <a title=\"Five Fat Leonard related felony convictions dismissed\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=157011\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Five Fat Leonard related felony convictions dismissed<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,703,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-big-navy","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}