{"id":66083,"date":"2016-05-31T11:35:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T15:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66083"},"modified":"2016-05-31T11:36:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T15:36:30","slug":"fat-leonard-may-sink-30-admirals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66083","title":{"rendered":"“Fat Leonard” may sink 30 Admirals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A 350 pound, 51-year-old Malaysian businessman, Leonard Glenn Francis, nicknamed “Fat Leonard”, plied the US 7th Fleet leadership (and I use that term loosely) with cigars, booze and opulent hotel accommodations in order “so they would look the other way while he swindled the Navy to refuel and resupply its ships”, according to the Virginian-Pilot<\/a>. Federal agents lured the generously-proportioned gentleman to California and arrested him. In his wake, nine Navy officers have pleaded guilty to charges related to the case. There are more to come;<\/p>\n

On Friday, three more current and former Navy officers were charged in federal court with corruption-related offenses. Charges are pending against two former Navy contracting officials who were arrested last year. Many others remain under investigation.<\/p>\n

Exactly how many is a mystery. When he pleaded guilty, Francis admitted to bribing \u201cscores\u201d of Navy officials with cash, sex and gifts worth millions of dollars \u2013 all so he could win more defense contracts and overcharge with impunity.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

In December, Adm. John Richardson, the chief of naval operations, summoned about 200 admirals to a special gathering in Washington.<\/p>\n

Without naming names, he revealed that about 30 of them were under criminal investigation by the Justice Department or ethical scrutiny by the Navy for their connections to Francis, according to two senior Navy officials with direct knowledge of the meeting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Because Admirals and Navy officers in general couldn’t afford to pay for that stuff on their puny salaries. By the way, Leonard’s moles also kept him informed about ship locations and movements in the Asian seas, you know, classified information. It’s also alleged that that Leonard’s moles moved ships around to benefit his company’s contracts.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Mick for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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