WASHINGTON – A US Navy Commander has pleaded guilty to receiving $250, 000 in cash and prostitution services from a foreign defence contractor in exchange for state secrets.Information Commander Stephen Shedd provided to the firm helped it defraud the navy of $35 billion.The plea is the latest in the ‘Fat Leonard’ case, considered one of the worst corruption scandals faced by the navy. Dozens of officials have been ensnared.Shedd is one of nine members of the Okinawa-based 7th US fleet indicted by a federal grand jury in March 2017 for their role in the scandal, and the third officer to plead guilty.According to the Justice Department, Shedd and the other officers received “sex parties with prostitutes and luxurious dinner and travel” in exchange for military secrets and “substantial influence” for the Glenn Defence Marine Asia (GDMA) company, a Singapore-based firm founded by a Malaysian national, Leonard Glenn Francis.The scandal became widely known as the “Fat Leonard” […]
US Navy officer ‘bribed by cash and prostitutes’
