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Posted on 05/20/2025 1:22:41 AM PDT by Libloather
DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro notched a significant legal victory Monday after retired four-star Navy Adm. Robert Burke was found guilty of bribery charges related to a scheme to steer government contracts to his future employer.
Burke, who served as the vice chief of naval operations during part of President Trump’s first term, was convicted of conspiracy to commit bribery, bribery, performing acts affecting a personal financial interest and concealing material facts from the US after a five-day trial.
Formerly the Navy’s second-highest-ranking officer, Burke is now the senior-most member of the US military to ever be convicted of a federal crime.
“When you abuse your position and betray the public trust to line your own pockets, it undermines the confidence in the government you represent,” Pirro said in a statement after the verdict. “Our office, with our law enforcement partners, will root out corruption – be it bribes or illegal contracts – and hold accountable the perpetrators, no matter what title or rank they hold.”
Burke, 63, was indicted in the case investigated by the Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS), Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) and the FBI’s Washington Field Office last May.
He was accused of accepting a $500,000 yearly salary and a grant of 100,000 stock options from his co-conspirators, Yongchul “Charlie” Kim and Meghan Messenger, in exchange for using his position as a Navy admiral to steer a government contract to an entity named in the indictment as “Company A.”
Kim and Messenger – the co-CEOs of “Company A” – had reached out to Burke on multiple occasions between 2019 and 2022 about the status of a government contract despite being warned by the Navy not to contact the four-star admiral, according to the Justice Department.
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Now go after all the retired personnel working for SIG.
CC
He should face a firing squad.
What’s the excuse for not naming “Company A”?
According to an internet search:
“Yongchul “Charlie” Kim and Meghan Messenger (the co-CEO’s of Next Jump – a training and leadership development company)”
There are videos of these two on YouTube . The admiral needs a flogging for working with these criminals
A “bribe”?
This sounds like every member of congress who approves legislation then takes a job with the company the legislation favored upon retirement… or all of them who become “lobbyists.”
Pirro. The Shape of Things to Come?
This Admiral and NextJump must not have any friends or lobbyists in Congress or embedded employees with senior staffs. Small potatoes compared to what I’ve seen General Dynamics do for Government management retirees in Diplomatic Security in the State Dept who were favorable to GD and its subs during their careers. One example, there is a lot of unused square footage in Sterling, VA being leased from GD by the State Dept and former Government employees responsible for it have been benefiting well after retirement. Then there are all the extra administrative “jobs” approved onto the contracts after the award. This nonsense pays off better for Govies than no-show union jobs that mob members get.
“What’s the excuse for not naming “Company A”?”
Chinese?
Judge Jeannine hits the ground running.
Per The Hill
“Burke, 63, of Coconut Creek, Fla., was arrested last year and charged with the crimes along with the co-CEOs of technology services firm “Next Jump” — the company he joined after retirement — Yongchul “Charlie” Kim and Meghan Messenger.
Why I refuse to own one.
And if you do own one, you best not drop it.
Next Jump is a privately-held technology and services company that provides employee engagement and rewards programs to large corporations. The firm was founded in 1994 by Charlie Kim and is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Boston, San Francisco, and London.
On May 31, 2024, co-CEOs[1] Charlie Kim and Meghan Messenger were arrested on charges of bribing then U.S. Navy Admiral Robert P. Burke to steer government contracts to NextJump in exchange for an offer of employment.
On May 31, 2024, former U.S. Navy admiral Robert P. Burke, who once served as Vice Chief of U.S. Naval Operations and who also took a job at Next Jump following his retirement from Navy, was arrested on bribery charges which were related to steering a Navy contract to Next Jump in exchange for a job at the company. The same day, Next Jump co-CEOs Charles Kim and Meghan Messenger were arrested as well.
I guess it’s ILLEGAL for government workers to do ‘favors’ for DOD contractors in return for later corporate Big Bucks, but PERFECTLY FINE for those at FDA to cash-in doing exactly the same for Big Food and Big Pharma...
“Now go after all the retired personnel working for SIG.”
Something definitely wrong with that contract. No doubt.
“…a leadership development company”
The irony is deep!
“DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro notched a significant legal victory Monday after retired four-star Navy Adm. Robert Burke was found guilty of bribery charges related to a scheme to steer government contracts to his future employer.”
Any relation to Arleigh Burke?
I know Piro is in charge right now. But her involvement in this case was minimal at best. She probably doesn’t know where the coffee machine is yet, let alone run prosecutions.
Giving her credit is silly.
She will have her day. Just not yesterday.
“…a $500,000 yearly salary and a grant of 100,000 stock options”
Victor D Hanson has railed about the revolving door abuse between the Pentagon and defense contractors. This has been SOP for a long time. You put in your decades of service at the top echelons and accept a multimillion dollar position at a big defense contractor after retiring.
Why didn’t Burke land a $10 million job at Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon Technologies, and Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII)? Why would he take a penny-ante job at a puny no-name company selling “leadership development” programs?
My guess this was an out-and-out bribe and it is a no-show job.
But, still, why would Burke throw away what he has to sell so cheaply? There’s something else going on here.
That is just how Federal Indictments are drafted, for white collar crimes. Federal Indictments are typically in narrative form, and may run on for pages.
In Texas, State Indictments are more laconic, like a proposed solution in the game Clue, “On June 31, 2024, in Milton-Bradley County, Texas, Col. Mustard killed Mr. Body by striking him in the head with a pipe wrench, a deadly weapon, against the peace and dignity of the state.”
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