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2022-09-06 -Lurid Crime Tales-

'Fat Leonard' in connection with Navy bribery scheme escapes San Diego house arrest

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-09-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 ….contacts….money…brain… all doors are open …

Posted by ACA JOE 2022-09-06 00:53|| 2022-09-06 00:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Crooked Malaysian contractor 'Fat Leonard' - who boasted about bribing US admirals with prostitutes in exchange for secret shipping routes - disappears after cutting off ankle monitor and skipping out on house arrest in San Diego three weeks before his sentencing

Posted by Skidmark 2022-09-06 07:49|| 2022-09-06 07:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Probably hiding in Florida, at some rich guy’s palatial mansion.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2022-09-06 08:39|| 2022-09-06 08:39|| Front Page Top

#4
#3 Probably hiding in ~~Florida~~China, at some rich guy’s palatial mansion.
Posted by: USN, Ret. 2022-09-06 08:39

Fat Leonard knew a LOT that would be very, very valuable to the PRC in wartime, and I would be stunned if he hadn't been feeding them that information while enriching himself. They may not be nice guys, but they do remember those who helped.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2022-09-06 09:35|| 2022-09-06 09:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Hidden bank accounts, fake ID, across the border and a plane ...anywhere

Posted by magpie 2022-09-06 10:21|| 2022-09-06 10:21|| Front Page Top

#6 What's in it for the Big Guy?

Posted by AlanC 2022-09-06 13:12|| 2022-09-06 13:12|| Front Page Top

#7 He could hike to Tijuana from San Diego if he's in reasonably good condition and that's assuming he didn't get a ride. Twenty miles max. If he stopped for a rest some place he could have blended in with the local homeless population. If he was only halfway intelligent he would have had a bug out bag and overseas bank account. If he made it to Mexico he could have hopped on board a ship or an airplane bound for almost anywhere by now but preferably a country without a US extradition treaty. Sounds like fun.

Why in the hell would you place somebody like that under house arrest instead of making him wait for sentencing in county jail?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-09-06 13:24|| 2022-09-06 13:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Because he had an undisclosed safe deposit box whick contained scores of names and social network connections. If he were disappeared or Epsteined, he left instructions for the contents to be forwarded simultaneously to seven major news networks.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-09-06 13:49|| 2022-09-06 13:49|| Front Page Top

#9 So they gave him a ride to Tijuana?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-09-06 14:11|| 2022-09-06 14:11|| Front Page Top

#10 I'm sure some retired admirals are relieved.

Posted by DooDahMan 2022-09-06 14:49|| 2022-09-06 14:49|| Front Page Top

#11 ….contacts….money…brain… all doors are open …

When times are good and all is orderly, sure. When they are not good and orderly, having money makes one a target, and contacts are only as good as they feel capable of.

A Mexican girlfriend of mine from our time in Germany — she was the happy souvenir of her husband’s work in her country — took her little blond children to visit her family in Mexico City in the mid-1990s. She came back shocked that her family would not allow her to wander the city with them as she had done on her own throughout her childhood, not even to the bottom of the driveway to buy an ice cream from the truck that drove through the neighbourhood, lest they be kidnapped.

Or, during the Chavez years, Mr. Wife’s business trips to Caracas, where the hotel concierge insisted on calling him a taxi to go to the bar across the street — again, lest he be kidnapped. There were several countries that Mr. Wife did not invite me to join when his company sent him there, despite the availability of corporate security.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-09-06 16:03|| 2022-09-06 16:03|| Front Page Top

#12 ..gun control.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-09-06 17:00|| 2022-09-06 17:00|| Front Page Top

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