Fat Leonard Podcasts

From the podcast website:

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“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":

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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.

Thanks for the link, Don

It looks like Leonard may have some company.

Navy Officer Turns Witness in Bribery Case That Echoes 'Fat Leonard' Scandal.

Listened to the first 2 episodes, and I'm hooked. Thanks for sharing, Don!

Where's Lenny?

Mexico with all his household belongings

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.

On 9/6/2022 at 8:20 PM, bob7947 said:

Where's Lenny?

Venezuela, at least for today

He's supposed to be on his way to Brazil.  He needs to find a country that does not have extradition rights with us.

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.

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.

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.

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Venezuela arrests 'Fat Leonard' contractor in U.S. Navy bribery case

Lenny was headed for Russia.

bob7947 said:

Lenny was headed for Russia.

Thank Goodness Venezuela isn’t on the list of countries above.