A former defense contractor has been sentenced to over a decade behind bars and substantial financial penalties for being the mastermind behind a decade-long bribery scheme involving dozens of U.S. Navy officers.
According to prosecutors, Leonard Francis, colloquially known as Fat Leonard, operated Singapore-based Glenn Defense Marine Asia, supplying food, water, and fuel to U.S. navy vessels during the 2000s and 2010s.
During that time, he is accused of bribing naval officers with beef, concert tickets, expensive cigars, cash, luxury hotel rooms, sex parties, and more in exchange for ignoring Francis’s overcharging for supplying ships and charging for fake services….