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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Retired Navy officer admits sending Malaysian defense contractor classified ship schedules for the Seventh Fleet in exchange for more than $45,000 in bribes and stays at luxury hotels
2021-09-01
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The 'Fat Leonard' scandal is one of the largest corruption cases in Navy history

  • Leonard Francis, 57, a Malaysian defense contractor, bribed hundreds of people to obtain confidential information and boost his Singapore-based business

  • Francis was arrested in 2013, pleaded guilty in 2015, and his long-delayed sentencing is now scheduled for September 24

  • Federal criminal charges have been filed against 34 Navy officials, defense contractors, and the Glenn Defense Marine Asia corporation

  • So far, 26 of those have pleaded guilty and many have been sentenced to several years in prison

  • On Tuesday one of nine defendants in what was to be the first criminal trial switched his not guilty plea and admitted the charges

  • Chief Warrant Officer Robert Gorsuch, 54, confessed to accepting more than $45,000 in bribes from Francis including lavish parties and hotel stays

  • Gorsuch will be sentenced in November for his role in the scam
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Fat Leonard: 2019-02-26 Military retirees can still be court-martialed, Supreme Court affirms
Fat Leonard: 2018-10-22 Ex-US Navy commander gets 30 months in prison for accepting ‘Fat Leonard’ bribes
Fat Leonard: 2017-03-16 USN 'Fat Leonard' Update: Perks included 'meals, gifts, rotating LBFM's'
Posted by:Skidmark

#2  

Ft. Leavenworth has a collection of Shadow cells
where the sun does not shine.

Or maybe the United States Penitentiary, in Thomson. Il.
So they can rub elbows with the GITMO inmates being Xfer'ed there.

SIDE NOTE:
Likely the Malaysian Defense Contractor was reselling the data to CCP & Russia. Maybe even slipping it to an area Islamic extremest group.
Posted by: NN2N1   2021-09-01 08:42  

#1  The higher-ups do it, why can't the little guys do it too? I'm sure they're all very confused.

You can tell that they're little guys by the fact that prison sentences are being handed out.
Posted by: Blinky Pholuling8616   2021-09-01 02:41  

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