Just so. For those who keep yelling "Why isn't she in jail yet????" Just remember:
Posted on 03/15/2017 9:03:55 AM PDT by Baynative
(WASHINGTON) -- Nine high-ranking U.S. Navy officers, including one former admiral, have been charged with trading classified information in exchange for travel, dinner and prostitution services from a foreign defense contractor -- the latest charges in the widening probe, according to the Justice Department.
According to the Justice Department, the Navy officials allegedly took in expensive travel and entertainment expenses as well as prostitution services while steering contracts toward the company, Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA), and blocking its competitors.
They allegedly used fake names and foreign email address to keep their actions secret.
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agreed, obozzo too..obvious f off by the elite does not wash with anyone...either the hag goes to prison or the country should get ready for war, because if there is no law, the people will get tired of supplying the gangstamint with its weapons to use against us..either law or no country..not a threat, just a fact..like trump said, a country that cannot ontrol it’s borders is not a country, it is in the same vein of thought, a country with no law, is not a country
No pensions, then what is the point of serving 20-30 years in an army or navy. The Romans paid legionnaire pensions after 25 year service. In the United States, from the earliest days of the this nation, we have paid pensions to career enlisted and officers after their service was up.
It IS lovely. We lived there for two years. I spent a lot of time at the San Diego Zoo, Balboa Park, the museums, bookstores and coffee shops. Farmers Markets and fresh veggies all over the place - something a Wisconsin Girl had never known existed! (I farm, now - grow most of our veggies.)
I was 19, first time away from Wisconsin and SO homesick - but at least our apartment had a nice pool and we were right on the ocean. Friends back home were jealous. ;)
It was fun to watch the dolphins and H’s ship, The USS Kitty Hawk, would pass right by the house when he had sea duty for a few weeks at a time.
I came back home to WI when he went on his WestPac tour for 9 months. We had no plans to stay in CA.
It’s the tip of the iceberg. Government has been corrupt from the top down for decades. The past few decades they brought us nothing but decline, debt, death while the professional politicians got wealthy. We don’t even know who the heads of our spy agencies work for.
“30 admirals are under investigation”
W’s last two years, and all but the last two years of the Fraud.
The indictment brings the total number of people charged with crimes in the investigation to 27. More than 200 people have come under scrutiny in the ongoing case.
“Half of the 25 have pleaded guilty so far.”
This is obviously a very big deal. If not for FR I would never had known about it.
Some background:
In September 2013, a subsidiary of the Glenn Marine Group, ship support contractor Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA), became the central public focus of an ongoing investigation into a corruption scandal within the US Navy which has become popularly known as the Fat Leonard scandal.
In 2010, Navy officials became suspicious that some of the bills submitted by Leonard Francis’ GDMA company from Thailand were padded.
According to prosecutors investigating the case, the company overcharged the Navy for goods and services by an amount that exceeded 20 million dollars. The company’s chief executive, president and chairman, Leonard Glenn Francis, also known as ‘Fat Leonard,’ allegedly recruited two spies within the United States Seventh Fleet and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), who would alert him whensoever naval auditors probed Glenn Marine business transactions.
In exchange, prosecutors charge that Francis supplied navy officials with prostitutes, cigars, travel expenses, 5-star accommodations, and other lavish perks.
Earlier arrests:
A number of American naval personnel have been arrested as a result of the investigation, including two navy commanders, a navy captain, and a special agent with NCIS. The chief of naval intelligence was stripped of his security clearance. Also, two admirals were suspended, and three admirals were censured by Ray Mabus, the Secretary of the Navy, and forced into retirement after it was determined that they improperly accepted gifts from Francis. Those were Rear Adm. Terry Kraft, commander of Naval Forces in Japan, and two other rear admirals, Michael Miller and David Pimpo. Those three officers served with the USS Ronald Reagan strike group in 2006 and 2007 while the bribery occurred. In addition, the US Navy has canceled all contracts with GDMA.
The arrest of “Fat Leonard”
US Federal agents lured Leonard Glenn Francis, a Malaysian national, to a San Diego hotel in the US in September 2013, and arrested him in a sting operation after a three-year secret investigation. He remains in custody in the US. On January 15, 2015, Francis, 50, pleaded guilty to all charges in San Diego federal court. He admitted to bribing scores of U.S. Navy officials with $500,000 in cash, sex from prostitutes, lavish hotel stays, and luxury goods. Leonard admitted to using his Navy contacts, including US Navy ship captains, to obtain classified information and to bilk the Navy out of about $20 million by steering ships to specific ports in the Pacific and falsifying service charges. In his plea, Francis identified seven Navy officials who accepted bribes. The 6-foot-3-inch, 350-pound Malaysian playboy faces a maximum prison sentence of 25 years and agreed to forfeit $35 million in personal assets.—Wikipedia
Drain the swamp.
Could they be looking at spending the rest of their pathetic lives in federal prison?
baynative asks:
“They were arrested in multiple state THIS morning, across country, and half have already pleaded guilty??????”
“The justice system works swiftly in the future now that they’ve abolished all lawyers.”—Doc Brown, “Back to the Future Part II”
Are these Clinton era officers?
When you pled guilty there is no Discovery phase, no testimony, therefore no net to spread out and capture others. Also lowers the odds of Arkancide prior to trial.
All I know is what was in the story. But it takes a while to get to senior level.
A buddy of mine was the top guy at MSC in San Diego, and build 40 ships for the Navy until he died in 2012 of cancer. He reported to another friend, a now retired Read Admiral who last worked out of VA running the Navy Sealift Command.
I've known these guys for 40 years, and sincerely doubt either was involved in anything like this.
The latest indictment brings the number of those charged in the ‘Fat Leonard’ case to 25. Twenty of those are current or former U.S. Navy officials, while five are Glenn Defense Marine Asia, Inc. executives. Thirteen persons have pleaded guilty thus far.
Just so. For those who keep yelling "Why isn't she in jail yet????" Just remember:
On November 8, 2013, the Navy temporarily relieved RAdm. Loveless of his duties and suspended his security clearance in connection with an NCIS bribery investigation involving Singapore-based defense contractor, Glenn Defense Marine Asia.[1][2] The Daily Mail reported; "Rear Admiral Bruce Loveless, one of [Vice Admiral Ted] Branch's deputies, has also had his access to classified information suspended.
In 2016, it was reported that both Loveless and Branch were still functioning in their roles, yet were "barred from reading, seeing or hearing classified information since November 2013", due to the suspension tied to the investigation
I’m sure these top brass were not millenials, but the corruption (turning away from our Christian faith) started in the 60s and 70s, and these types of scandals and the loss of at least two generations of young people to postmodern/no moral absolutes/anything goes thinking are the result.
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