Military contractor Leonard Glenn 'Fat Leonard' Francis will be sentenced on Tuesday, nearly nine years after pleading guilty to bribing Navy officials in a…
In 2022, Francis was arrested in Venezuela and brought back to the U. S. following a prisoner exchange between the two countriesMilitary contractor Leonard Glenn"Fat Leonard" Francis was sentenced on Tuesday to 15 years in prison and was ordered to pay $20 million restitution, nearly nine years after pleading guilty to bribing Navy officials in a wide-ranging corruption scheme.
The contractor was at the center of one of the biggest bribery investigations in U.S. military history led to the conviction and Francis pleaded guilty to bribing Navy officers with fancy hotel stays, meals and prostitutes in exchange for classified information, persuading them to direct aircraft carriers to ports he controlled so they could be resupplied by his Singapore-based husbanding company, Glenn Defense Marine Asia. He also admitted overcharging the U.S.
In exchange, the officers, including the first active-duty admiral to be convicted of a federal crime, concealed the scheme in which Francis would overcharge for supplying ships or charge for fake services at ports he controlled in Southeast Asia. The officers passed him classified information and even went so far as redirecting military vessels to ports that were lucrative for his Singapore-based ship servicing company.
While awaiting sentencing, Francis was hospitalized and treated for renal cancer and other medical issues. After leaving the hospital, he was But three weeks before his scheduled sentencing in September 2022, he snipped off his monitor and made a brazen escape, setting off an international search. Officials said he fled to Mexico, made his way to Cuba and eventually got to Venezuela. — caught before he boarded a flight at the Simon Bolivar International Airport outside Caracas.
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