Navy Secretary Predicts Contracting Scandal Will Expand

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-20/navy-secretary-predicts-contracting-scandal-will-expand.html

U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said the fallout from a contractor bribery scandal that allegedly involved trading prostitutes for classified information is likely to widen, as he pledged to crack down on fraud.

“I certainly don’t think we’ve seen the end of it,” Mabus told a Pentagon press conference today, stopping short of saying whether more arrests of naval officers are likely.

Leonard Glenn Francis, chief executive officer of Singapore-based Glenn Defense Marine (Asia), was arrested in September and charged with bribing two U.S. Navy commanders with cash and prostitutes to help win dockside supply contracts. Francis has pleaded not guilty.

The two commanders were charged, along with a U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service agent, who pleaded guilty this week to conspiracy to commit bribery. The Navy also suspended access to classified information for two of its top admirals who handle intelligence matters after putting them on leave pending further investigation.

[hootinholler]

1. LOL for the oxymoronic title. n/t

[malaise]

2. The cost of many Bushco policy decisions, contracting aspects of national security and

several appointments are now coming to the fore. No wonder Rmoney et al were so eager to win.

[KoKo]

3. Wow...and wasn't a General in charge of our Nukes caught drunk in Russia

consorting with prostitutes and making an ass of himself blabbering like a fool?

All this comes at holiday time when we are distracted...but, hope more will be coming.

Sometimes I feel we are a country gone mad with only fools or crazies in charge..