{"id":1250124,"date":"2022-01-28T08:23:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T13:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1250124"},"modified":"2022-01-28T08:23:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T13:23:34","slug":"navy-commander-admits-to-being-bribed-by-fat-leonard-giving-classified-info-to-foreign-defense-contractor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/navy-commander-admits-to-being-bribed-by-fat-leonard-giving-classified-info-to-foreign-defense-contractor\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy Commander Admits To Being Bribed By \u2018Fat Leonard,\u2019 Giving Classified Info To Foreign Defense Contractor"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnavy-commander-admits-to-being-bribed-by-fat-leonard-giving-classified-info-to-foreign-defense-contractor%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1250124&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A U.S. Navy Commander admitted to taking bribes involving prostitutes, meals, entertainment, cash and other gifts amounting to a total of a quarter-million dollars from a foreign defense contractor in Singapore known as \u201cFat Leonard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Commander Stephen Shedd, of the Navy\u2019s Seventh Fleet, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sdca\/pr\/us-navy-commander-pleads-guilty-run-seventh-fleet-navy-bribery-trial\">pleaded<\/a> guilty to bribery charges involving him and nine other indicted members of Seventh Fleet leadership. Singapore-based defense contractor, Leonard Glenn Francis, supplied Shedd and others in the Navy with prostitutes, cash, food, entertainment, money for travel and hotels, and other gifts according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe defendant has admitted he was one of the many whose allegiance was switched from the Navy to Leonard Francis,\u201d U.S. Attorney Randy Grossman said. \u201cThis abdication of the defendant\u2019s duties to the Navy and the United States comes with heavy consequences.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Shedd\u2019s plea was related to the \u2018Fat Leonard\u2019 scandal, which involved the Navy being overbilled by $35 million as Francis was awarded contracts as he bribed Navy officials. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2022\/01\/26\/fat-leonard-scandal-brings-another-guilty-plea-from-a-navy-officer\/\">According<\/a> to the Navy Times, 28 Navy personnel and defense contractors have admitted guilt to their roles in the scheme.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Francis, also known as \u201cFat Leonard,\u201d was the CEO of Glenn Defense Marine Asia, a defense contractor. A Malaysian citizen, he reportedly weighed about 350 pounds. Despite pleading guilty in 2015, he has not yet received a sentence.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During his time as commander, Shedd gave away confidential information to Francis about ship schedules and logistics. Shedd told prosecutors that he and his fellow defendants influenced the Navy to award contracts to GDMA. They also&nbsp; worked to \u201coverlook inflated invoices\u201d and&nbsp; \u201cquash bid protests filed by GDMA\u2019s competitors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCmdr. Shedd abused his high-level position in the Navy by illegally accepting lavish gifts from Mr. Francis in exchange for providing Mr. Francis classified ship schedules listing numerous ships, specific ports, and dates for the visits far in advance of ship visits,\u201d said NCIS Director Omar Lopez.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNCIS and our law enforcement partners are committed to rooting out bribery and corruption that wastes valuable U.S. taxpayer money and damages the integrity of the Navy,\u201d Lopez continued.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The bribery scheme was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sf\/investigative\/2016\/05\/27\/the-man-who-seduced-the-7th-fleet\/\">described<\/a> by a reporter for The Washington Post as \u201cperhaps the worst national-security breach of its kind to hit the Navy since the end of the Cold War.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Six more defendants from the Seventh Fleet face charges of \u201cconspiring to trade military secrets and substantial influence for sex parties with prostitutes and luxurious dinners and travel, among other lavish things of value.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These defendants include U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Bruce Loveless; Captains David Newland, James Dolan, David Lausman and Donald Hornbeck; and Commander Mario Herrera.<\/p>\n<p>The Seventh Fleet is the biggest numbered fleet in the Navy with over 40,000 Sailors and Marines, 60 to 70 ships, and 200 to 300 aircraft. The fleet carries strategic importance as it patrols large areas of the Western Pacific including Southeast Asia, Pacific Islands, Australia, and Russia and the Indian Ocean regions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. Navy Commander admitted to taking bribes involving prostitutes, meals, entertainment, cash and other gifts amounting to a total of a quarter-million dollars from a foreign defense contractor in Singapore known as \u201cFat Leonard.\u201d On Wednesday, Commander Stephen Shedd, of the Navy\u2019s Seventh Fleet, pleaded guilty to bribery charges involving him and nine other &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1250124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1250124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}