Don Mansfield Posted October 5, 2021 Report Share Posted October 5, 2021 Fat Leonard podcasts have been released. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vern Edwards Posted October 5, 2021 Report Share Posted October 5, 2021 From the podcast website: Quote “Fat Leonard” is the most shocking unknown tale of our era: Leonard Francis, a 350-pound defense contractor, bribed U.S. Navy officers with cash, prostitutes and luxury items in return for fraudulent multi-million-dollar deals. Eventually the NCIS set up an off-the-books operation to entrap Leonard. As details of his fraud became clear, the Navy moved to protect its senior ranks. In “Fat Leonard,” the debut podcast from Project Brazen (the content studio created by “Billion Dollar Whale” co-authors and former Wall Street Journal reporters Bradley Hope and Tom Wright), Leonard himself, detained since 2013, is talking for the first time -- and he’s angry. Host Tom Wright has spent hours with Leonard, but also recording scores of other voices, including the brave women who exposed the fraud. The alarming and sordid details in “Fat Leonard” lay bare the misogyny and sexual abuse that persist in the U.S. military and could destabilize the biggest trials yet of Navy officers in this case, set to begin in 2022. “Fat Leonard” will change the way you look at the Navy forever. And from The Washington Post, October 3, under the headline: "U.S. Navy hit by another international bribery scandal": Quote Federal agents are investigating a new U.S. Navy corruption case that has strong echoes of the Fat Leonard scandal, with a defense contractor facing accusations that he delivered cash bribes and bilked the Navy out of at least $50 million to service its ships in foreign ports, according to recently unsealed court records. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/navy-bribery-scandal/2021/10/03/d5181302-245e-11ec-8d53-67cfb452aa60_story.html Contracts to service naval vessels while in port are referred to as "ship husbanding" contracts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
here_2_help Posted October 5, 2021 Report Share Posted October 5, 2021 Thanks for the link, Don Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob7947 Posted October 6, 2021 Report Share Posted October 6, 2021 It looks like Leonard may have some company. Navy Officer Turns Witness in Bribery Case That Echoes 'Fat Leonard' Scandal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Twardoski Posted October 6, 2021 Report Share Posted October 6, 2021 Listened to the first 2 episodes, and I'm hooked. Thanks for sharing, Don! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob7947 Posted September 7, 2022 Report Share Posted September 7, 2022 Where's Lenny? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
formerfed Posted September 7, 2022 Report Share Posted September 7, 2022 Mexico with all his household belongings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joel hoffman Posted September 7, 2022 Report Share Posted September 7, 2022 Shocker…neighbors report having seen moving vans coming and going from the house for a couple of days. Duh. I wonder what they thought was actually going on. Authorities are right on top of “house arrest” situation…Not! Makes me wonder how many more have been bribed since his extended house arrest in a gated community. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
formerfed Posted September 22, 2022 Report Share Posted September 22, 2022 On 9/6/2022 at 8:20 PM, bob7947 said: Where's Lenny? Venezuela, at least for today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob7947 Posted September 23, 2022 Report Share Posted September 23, 2022 He's supposed to be on his way to Brazil. He needs to find a country that does not have extradition rights with us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joel hoffman Posted September 23, 2022 Report Share Posted September 23, 2022 The US needs to hire Mossad or Chicago PD’s “Intelligence Unit” to “extradite” him. The US has already proven that they couldn’t or perhaps wouldn’t keep him detained. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vern Edwards Posted September 23, 2022 Report Share Posted September 23, 2022 14 hours ago, bob7947 said: He's supposed to be on his way to Brazil. He needs to find a country that does not have extradition rights with us. Countries without an extradition treaty with U.S. (according to the Internet): Afghanistan, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, the Central African Republic, Chad, Mainland China, Comoros, Congo (Kinshasa), Congo (Brazzaville), Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Libya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Niger, Oman, Qatar, Russia, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé & Príncipe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican, Vietnam and Yemen. Morocco might be nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
here_2_help Posted September 23, 2022 Report Share Posted September 23, 2022 46 minutes ago, Vern Edwards said: Countries without an extradition treaty with U.S. (according to the Internet): Afghanistan, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, the Central African Republic, Chad, Mainland China, Comoros, Congo (Kinshasa), Congo (Brazzaville), Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Libya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Niger, Oman, Qatar, Russia, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé & Príncipe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican, Vietnam and Yemen. Morocco might be nice. I hope he doesn't try to fly to Morocco via Royal Air Maroc, as I once tried to do. Never again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob7947 Posted September 23, 2022 Report Share Posted September 23, 2022 Quote Venezuela arrests 'Fat Leonard' contractor in U.S. Navy bribery case Lenny was headed for Russia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joel hoffman Posted September 23, 2022 Report Share Posted September 23, 2022 1 hour ago, bob7947 said: Lenny was headed for Russia. Thank Goodness Venezuela isn’t on the list of countries above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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