{"id":64074,"date":"2016-01-29T07:25:08","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T12:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64074"},"modified":"2016-01-29T06:40:03","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T11:40:03","slug":"misiewicz-pleads-guilty-in-gdma-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64074","title":{"rendered":"Misiewicz Pleads Guilty In GDMA Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CDR Michael Vannak Khem Misiewicz <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2016\/01\/29\/navy-commander-pleads-guilty-in-bribery-case-faces-up-to-20-years-in-prison.html\">has pleaded guilty in Federal court<\/a><\/em> to two felonies in conjunction with the Glenn Defense Marine Asia, Ltd (hereafter \u201cGDMA\u201d) bribery scandal.\u00a0 The two felonies were conspiracy to commit bribery and bribery of a public official.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the scandal, Misiewicz had been selected for promotion to Captain.\u00a0 Now he faces up to 20 years in Federal prison.\u00a0 A sentencing hearing is scheduled for 29 April.<\/p>\n<p>Another Naval officer involved &#8211; LCDR Todd Malaki &#8211; has also recently pleaded guilty.\u00a0 He\u2019s scheduled to be sentenced today.\u00a0 He faces a maximum possible sentence of 5 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>In the GDMA scandal, the CEO of GDMA &#8211; &#8220;Fat Leonard&#8221; Francis &#8211;\u00a0 provided numerous expensive gifts to various Navy personnel in exchange for advance information regarding Navy port calls and\/or the diversion of Navy ships to specific ports.\u00a0 This in turn allowed GDMA to overcharge the US Government approximately $20 million for services performed in conjunction with those port calls.<\/p>\n<p>At present, only one of the GDMA conspirators is fighting charges; the rest have pleaded guilty.\u00a0 A <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57546\">partial list of those involved<\/a><\/em> from about a year ago can be found here.\u00a0 However, it is known to be incomplete, as Malaki is not listed there.<\/p>\n<p>The matter remains under investigation.\u00a0 More arrests are possible.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I hope every one of the US personnel involved &#8211; civilian or military &#8211; gets absolutely <u>nailed to the wall<\/u> at sentencing. These individuals were all in positions of public trust and abused them badly. IMO they deserve a looong time to contemplate their misdeeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CDR Michael Vannak Khem Misiewicz has pleaded guilty in Federal court to two felonies in conjunction &hellip; <a title=\"Misiewicz Pleads Guilty In GDMA Scandal\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64074\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Misiewicz Pleads Guilty In GDMA Scandal<\/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":[213,185,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-crime","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64074","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=64074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}