Posted on 12/04/2017 7:35:19 AM PST by x1stcav
U.S. Navy Cmdr. Bobby Pitts was sentenced Friday to 18 months in jail for his role in the largest fraud scheme to ever plague the service.
U.S. District Judge Janis Sammartino scolded Pitts on Friday and told him he had “betrayed the Navy and betrayed the country,” the Associated Press reports.
“Pitts deliberately and methodically undermined government operations and in doing so, diverted his allegiance from his country and colleagues to a foreign defense contractor, and for that, he is paying a high price,” U.S. Attorney Adam Braverman said.
Singapore-based defense contractor Leonard Francis perpetrated the fraud scheme, termed Fat Leonard, which involved numerous high-ranking Navy officials handing him favors in exchange for bribes like cash, prostitutes, Cuban cigars and wild parties.
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Just asking.
Not likely, but the ‘Fat Leonard’ scandal here is probably tied to many of those ‘sealed indictments’ that bloggers claim are from the Mueller investigation.
Nah. He could probably steer a ship just fine, especially if the destination was a suitcase full of cash with some hookers on the side.
Oh for the petty larcenies of Sgt Bilko, McHale’s Navy, Jackie Gleason in “Soldier in the Rain”, and Telly Savalas in “Kelly’s Heroes”.
[ the fraud scheme ... which involved numerous high-ranking ,,, officials handing ... favors in exchange for bribes like cash, prostitutes, Cuban cigars and wild parties. ]
Sorta sounds like a DNC / foreign entity fundraiser for The Clinton Foundation.
And Hitlery skates....
Raise your hand if you think there are a lot more Commander Pitts types all over the place in our military, especially in the top slots. The Pentagon is filled with military bureaucrats suffering from Swamp Fever!
Just shows how deep the corruption truly is.
And the Booshes embrace their “sister Hillary” and kept silent on Obama for 8 years....
Are we sure Cong Conyers, Sen Franken, Cong Al Greene are not involved?
Sounds like the dream bubble that lives inside their fat heads.
Corruption and incompetence in the US Navy. Now we see the same corruption and incompetence in the FBI.
The smell of Obama is everywhere.
I think it is more pervasive as far as time-line goes and is at least twenty-five years old starting with the Clintons.
“...And the Booshes embrace their “sister Hillary” and kept silent on Obama for 8 years....”
Yes. And the Repub voters gave him the two terms with both houses. Corruption to the max...
Given the scale of the operation this guy was at the heart of, he probably figures eighteen months is a small price to pay for the amount of money he has stashed somewhere in Asia.
Don’t forget James Garner in The Great Escape.
In the meantime, Hillary and Obama roam free.
There were very good reasons for the founders to insist on someone who could only be an American. Naturally a citizen because there is no alternative, born here of citizen parents.
An O-5 is not very high up on the food chain.
The founding fathers feared the ascension of loyalists.
Loyalists now control New York and all of New England.
Loyalists prefer the socialism of UK and EU to American Liberty.
Benedict Arnold became a loyalist after betraying America
Eighteen months is not a high price for corruption in the performance of official duties; I'd call it far too low.
Could this be why we are seeing so many congress critters not running for re-election or leaving office? Have they made a deal, leave or go to court?
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