A former military contractor at the center of a sweeping corruption and criminal probe involving U.S. Navy contracting has escaped from house arrest, the U.S. Marshals Service said
An attorney for Mr. Francis declined to comment. Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal Omar Castillo didn’t respond to requests for comment.
Mr. Francis was president of Singapore-based Glenn Defense Marine Asia, or GDMA, which provided fuel, food, security and other services for Navy ships transiting the Pacific and Indian oceans. He paid bribes to U.S. naval personnel to help steer business to his company, eventually gaining a near monopoly on contracts in the region, prosecutors said.to charges including fraud and bribery. Prosecutors alleged Mr. Francis and his firm had overcharged the U.S.
Mr. Francis’s sentencing was repeatedly delayed, in part because he cooperated with investigators. Around 2018, Mr. Francis, who suffered from kidney cancer, was released to home detention in San Diego to await sentencing, wearing a GPS monitoring bracelet on his ankle and reportedly living with three of his children.
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