{"id":57546,"date":"2015-01-08T12:30:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T17:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57546"},"modified":"2016-01-29T06:25:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T11:25:57","slug":"a-gdma-scandal-scorecard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57546","title":{"rendered":"A GDMA Scandal &#8220;Scorecard&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone interested, here\u2019s a short list of those who\u2019ve been named as involved in the Glenn Defense Marine Asia, Ltd \u2013 AKA GDMA &#8211; scandal.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">CDR Jose Luis Sanchez, USN<\/span> \u2013 pleaded guilty earlier this month to bribery charges. He was the subject of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57525\">yesterday\u2019s TAH article<\/a> regarding the GDMA scandal.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">John Bertrand Beliveau II, NCIS Supervisory Special Agent<\/span> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao\/cas\/press\/2013\/cas13-1217-BeliveauPlea.pdf\">pleaded guilty to bribery and conspiracy charges<\/a> in December 2013. Beliveau admitted to providing GDMA information on NCIS investigations into their business dealings.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">PO1 Daniel Layug, USN<\/span> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/us-navy-petty-officer-based-japan-pleads-guilty-international-bribery-scandal\">pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery charges<\/a> in May 2014. Layug was providing classified ship movement schedules to GDMA officials as well as competitor pricing information.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Alex Wisidagama<\/span> \u2013 former executive at GDMA and cousin of the GDMA CEO, Leonard Glenn Francis, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao\/cas\/press\/2014\/cas14-0318-WisidagamaPlea.html\">pleaded guilty in May 2014<\/a> to participating in a scheme whereby GDMA grossly overcharged the US Navy for costs associated with services performed during port calls. In one such visit \u2013 by the <em>USS Mustin<\/em> to Laem Chabang, Thailand, in 2011 \u2013 the overcharges appear to have totaled $1.5M for a single port call.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Edmond A. Aruffo, LCDR, USN (Retired<\/span>) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/former-us-navy-officer-pleads-guilty-international-bribery-scandal\">pleaded guilty in July 2014<\/a> to participating in GDMA\u2019s scheme to overcharge grossly the USN for costs associated port calls.<\/p>\n<p>So far, two other individuals \u2013 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Leonard Glenn Francis, CEO of GDMA<\/span>, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">CDR Michael Vannak Khem Misiewicz, USN<\/span>, have submitted and maintained \u201cnot guilty\u201d pleas to bribery and conspiracy charges associated with the scandal.\u00a0 Both are accused of bribery and conspiracy.\u00a0 (Interestingly, Misiewicz is a former CO of the <em>USS Mustin.<\/em>)\u00a0 He was indicted on seven additional charges recently &#8211; after CDR Sanchez pleaded guilty.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.\u00a0 This one continues to seem . . . interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone interested, here\u2019s a short list of those who\u2019ve been named as involved in the &hellip; <a title=\"A GDMA Scandal &#8220;Scorecard&#8221;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57546\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A GDMA Scandal &#8220;Scorecard&#8221;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,119,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-navy","category-shitbags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57546","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}