Contractor at Center of Navy Bribery Scheme Pleads Guilty
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A Singapore-based contractor at the center of a U.S. Navy bribery scheme pleaded guilty to charges he provided officers with cash, gifts and prostitutes in exchange for classified information and sending ships to ports where he provided services.
Leonard Glenn Francis, chief executive officer of Glenn Defense Marine (Asia), is the seventh person to admit wrongdoing in the case that already led to guilty pleas by four U.S. Navy officials, including a captain who entered his plea earlier Thursday, and two of Francis’s employees. One commander still faces bribery charges. Glenn Defense Marine had contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars for servicing American ships at ports in Southeast Asia.