Sure he does.
Someone like him, with his familial connections and with a POTUS in their pocket, gets a good story that makes the world go away.
No one looks for you if you're dead. Just sayin'...
In Islam, burial at sea is about the worst way to go - only accepted if, while at sea, the body would be subject to significant decay before proper (albeit hasty) burial on land could be arranged. Since they were on a seriously large ship (aircraft carrier IIRC?) "respectful" would have been stick him in a freezer in the morgue until next docking.
Overboard was to mitigate any squabbles about what to do with him upon landfall. Done, gone, nobody knows where.