Tucked on the northwest corner of the island of Borneo, the port at Sepanggar Bay isn’t very big and by Asian standards isn’t very well known.
That made it perfect place for Leonard Glenn Francis. The flamb
Two admirals face probe in Navy bribery scheme
oyant, oversized chief executive of Glenn Defense Marine Asia is at the center of a burgeoning international bribery and fraud scandal that has ensnared two Navy ship commanders and is not stopping there.
Sepanggar was one of his company’s “Pearl Ports,” a term he and his colleagues used to label a handful of ports around Asia that promised the most profit, according to federal investigators.
The expanding probe could end up being the biggest scandal for the Navy since the Tailhook sexual harassment case in the early 1990s. Full story
Related:
- Two admirals face probe in Navy bribery scheme - The Washington Post
- Bribery Case Implicates 2 Admirals - The New York Times
- 2 Admirals Implicated in Navy Bribery, Prostitution Scandal - NBC New York
- 2 admirals' classified access suspended in Navy probe - CNN.com
- ‘Fat Leonard’ weaselled way into US Navy circles - The Malay Mail Online
