re: Looks like a couple admirals may be walking the plank

The U.S. freed a close ally of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in exchange for the release of 10 Americans imprisoned in the South American country and the return of fugitive defense contractor Leonard Francis known as "Fat Leonard." Francis is at the center of a massive Pentagon bribery scandal, the Biden administration announced Wednesday.

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The notorious and once portly defense contractor known as "Fat Leonard," who scammed the U.S. Navy out of millions of dollars for more than a decade, is being extradited to the U.S. as part of a prisoner swap deal with Venezuela, the White House announced on Wednesday.

U.S. strikes prisoner swap deal with Venezuela, plus extradition of 'Fat Leonard'

Leonard Glenn Francis, now 59, escaped from house arrest in San Diego in September 2022 after cutting off an ankle tracking bracelet shortly before a sentencing trial for his role behind one of the largest corruption scandals in the country's military history that ensnared more than two dozen U.S. Navy officials. But his life on the run was short lived. Francis was captured weeks later by authorities in Venezuela where he has remained in custody until now.

"His return to the United States will now ensure that he is held fully accountable for his crime, as well as for his attempt to escape from justice," a senior Biden administration official said on Wednesday, adding that Francis will be sent to a federal detention facility to await his delayed sentencing.

What did "Fat Leonard" do?
In 2015 Francis pleaded guilty to plying more than 30 officials, including more than two dozen naval officers, with a slew of bribes to gain lucrative contracts for his Singapore-based company Glenn Defense Marine Asia Ltd.

According to the Department of Justice, officers were lavished with a criminal potpourri of cash, prostitutes, parties and luxury travel and items such as "Cuban cigars, Kobe beef and Spanish suckling pig."

Francis also admitted to overcharging the Pentagon for made up services. In all, the Department of Justice said he bilked the Navy out of $35 million, leading officials to call it "one of the most brazen bribery conspiracies in the U.S. Navy's history."

In exchange, officers handed over classified and other sensitive material to Francis' company, which had a contract to resupply and service Navy ships in Asia.

How did Francis escape?
After pleading guilty to the fraud and bribery charges against him, the disgraced Malaysian businessman was permitted to remain under house arrest due to his poor health at the time. Under the plea deal, he could receive medical care for advanced kidney cancer as long as he retained round-the-clock private security and cooperate with the Justice Department. Stars and Stripes reported Francis provided "incriminating evidence against hundreds of Navy personnel."

But on Sept. 4, 2022, three weeks before his sentencing, Francis snipped off the GPS tracking device around his ankle that was supposed to ensure he could not flee. Neighbors in Francis' tony neighborhood later said they had seen U-Haul vehicles coming and going from the home in the days leading up to his escape, The Associated Press reported. And when officials arrived at the fugitive's home, they found no security guards at the residence.

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Will you settle for "hoisted from the yardarm"?

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flogged at the mast would do

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Milley went so far as to pledge he would alert his counterpart in the event of a U.S. attack, stressing the rapport they’d established through a backchannel. “General Li, you and I have known each other for now five years. If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise.”

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Back in the day you’d get tarred and feathered for this type of behavior.

... this is all about the Mar a Lago "classified" docs case

The Docs we're not classified but we're being guarded by psuedo military guards

but the docs were sniffed out by some bloodhounds that jumped the Pentagon fence.

and here we are ...

From reading the entire post in OP. It sounds like whoever---- was posting this because it has been covered up on top of cover up. So enough is enough.

Fifty lashes with a Penang lawyer.

Avast ye blasted tars. Keelhaul the rum sotted landlubbers that never walked a deck.

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Admiral French was Legal Counsel to General Milley from August 2018 to August 2021, the period in which General Milley made potentially treasonous phone calls to China, and allegedly ordered that the US Military use Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) against American Citizens on American soil.

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Damn this Winning makes me so Proud of America.

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Timely retirement

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And people wonder how so many governmental departments/agencies go broke. People do something wrong, and they are allowed to retire and not just be fired.