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The Navy’s former second-highest-ranking officer and commander of naval forces for Europe and Africa was arrested Friday on federal bribery charges for allegedly awarding a sole-source contract to a company
Retired four-star Admiral Robert P. Burke faces the prospect of becoming only the second US admiral to be found guilty of committing a federal crime while on active duty, after he was arrested on a five-count indictment.
A massive trove of documents produced in the investigation of Leonard Francis provides an unprecedented view of the man at the center of it all and his years of corruption
The principal perpetrator, in what AP News called “one of the most extensive bribery scandals in US military history,” popped up in Venezuela of all places. Leonard Glenn Francis bilked the US Navy out of at least $35 million. The culprit goes by the moniker “Fat Leonard.” He tips the scales at 350 pounds, according
Leonard Glenn Francis, who is known as Fat Leonard, was less than three weeks away from his sentencing date when he cut off his GPS anklet and left his home in San Diego, the authorities said.