Admiral and 8 Other Navy Officers Indicted on Bribery Charges
According to the indictment, after a night of fine dining and prostitutes in Bangkok, Commander Shedd emailed Mr. Francis to say
that Admiral Loveless and two other officers who were hosted for the event "were all smiles on the drive home over their ‘one night in Bangkok.’ " The indictment also accuses Admiral Loveless of obstructing the bribery investigation by denying knowledge of the scheme.
Prosecutors contend that Commander Shedd then gave classified intelligence about Navy contracts
and fleet movements to Mr. Francis, who was chief executive of a contractor called Glenn Defense Marine Asia, which had extensive United States military contracts.
Prosecutors, laying out in unsparing detail a plot
that stretched from Singapore to Washington, accused the officers — all with the Seventh Fleet in the Pacific, the Navy’s largest — of betraying the public trust for bribes from a well-connected military contractor in Singapore, Leonard Glenn Francis, known as Fat Leonard.
By ERIC LICHTBLAUMARCH 14, 2017
WASHINGTON — A retired United States Navy admiral and eight other high-ranking officers were indicted on Tuesday in a widening bribery
scandal in which prosecutors say a foreign contractor traded luxury travel, lavish gifts and prostitutes for inside intelligence.
In one of many lavish events cataloged in the indictment, prosecutors said Mr. Francis,
the military contractor, took Admiral Loveless and another defendant, Lt. Cmdr.
And he said he did not recall ever staying in a hotel room
that he had not paid for, the prosecutors said, despite evidence that Mr. Francis had paid the bill for numerous stays for him and others at lavish hotels around Asia where ships from the Seventh Fleet were docked.