Leonard Glenn Francis

Venezuela hands over “Fat Leonard”

When Leonard Glenn Francis, the man at the center of the “Fat Leonard” bribery case that rocked the Navy, last surfaced in public, it was back in September 2022 when he was arrested at the Simon Bolivar International in Caracas, Venezuela. As we reported at that time, he was detained on the basis of an Interpol red notice to await extradition to the United States.

It generally supposed that Venezuela’s Maduras regime would not speed up the extradition but would hang on to Francis as a bargaining...

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Another guilty plea in “Fat Leonard” case

U.S. Marine Corps Colonel Enrico DeGuzman has become the second of the “Seventh Fleet Nine” to enter a guilty plea in the ongoing “Fat Leonard” case.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California, DeGuzman pleaded guilty to a bribery charge September 3, admitting that he accepted more than $67,000 in meals, drinks, entertainment and hotel stays in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Tokyo from foreign defense contractor Leonard Glenn Francis.

DeGuzman was one of nine...

https://www.marinelog.com/news/another-guilty-plea-in-fat-leonard-case/

Another prison term in long-running Navy bribery case

Former U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Brooks Alonzo Parks has become the latest defendant to receive a prison term in the so called “Fat Leonard Affair” — the wide-ranging corruption and fraud investigation involving foreign defense contractor Leonard Glenn Francis and his Singapore-based company, Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA).

Parks was sentenced October 30 to 27 months in prison and $25,405.76 in restitution for federal bribery conspiracy charges by U.S. District Judge Janis L. Sammartino.

The...

https://www.marinelog.com/news/another-prison-term-in-long-running-navy-bribery-case/