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inanna

(3,547 posts) Tue Jan 6, 2015, 07:39 PM Jan 2015

US Navy commander pleads guilty in massive bribery case

Source: Seattle PI

Updated 3:27 pm, Tuesday, January 6, 2015

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A U.S. Navy commander has pleaded guilty to bribery and conspiracy in a massive scheme involving a military contractor in Asia.

Jose Luis Sanchez entered the plea at a Tuesday hearing in San Diego federal court. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison when he is sentenced March 27.

A judge agreed to let Sanchez remove a GPS monitor while free on bond.

Sanchez was accused of accepting bribes including prostitutes and travel for steering Navy ships to Leonard Glenn Francis, chief executive of a Singapore-based company that provided services to vessels at ports. Francis has pleaded not guilty.

Read more: http://www.seattlepi.com/news/crime/article/US-Navy-official-to-change-plea-in-bribery-scheme-5997371.php

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US Navy commander pleads guilty in massive bribery case (Original Post) inanna Jan 2015 OP

It's sickening to find out what my tax dollars are purchasing misterhighwasted Jan 2015 #1

Removing a GPS monitor JimDandy Jan 2015 #2

But, but our men in uniform are always innocent and are the pinnacle of morality who shall... Crowman1979 Jan 2015 #3

Please don´t broad brush all men in uniform. (nt) malokvale77 Jan 2015 #4

I think I've seen this episode on NCIS -- n/t HeiressofBickworth Jan 2015 #5

Any contractors charged? JonLP24 Jan 2015 #6

misterhighwasted

(9,148 posts)

1. It's sickening to find out what my tax dollars are purchasing

Reply to inanna (Original post)

Tue Jan 6, 2015, 07:47 PM

Jan 2015

I doubt this is but a smidge of the waste that really takes place.

JimDandy

(7,318 posts)

2. Removing a GPS monitor

Reply to inanna (Original post)

Tue Jan 6, 2015, 07:56 PM

Jan 2015

from someone who has plead guilty makes no sense on the surface. Did the prosecution object or was this part of a deal made with them to testify against Glenn Fransis? Why isn't he being court martialed within the military system?