U.S. Navy commander pleads guilty in corruption scandal

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

U.S. Navy commander pleads guilty in corruption scandal
Reuters
By Marty Graham
5 hours ago

(Reuters) - A U.S. Navy commander charged with accepting paid travel, prostitutes and Lady Gaga concert tickets from a Malaysian defense contractor in exchange for classified information pleaded guilty on Thursday to federal corruption charges.

Commander Michael Vannak Khem Misiewicz appeared in U.S. District Court in San Diego to answer to charges of conspiracy to commit bribery and bribery of a public official stemming from his involvement in a scandal surrounding a contractor who serviced ships in the Navy's Pacific Fleet.

Misiewicz admitted to providing Malaysian businessman Leonard Francis, known to friends as "Fat Leonard," classified information worth millions of dollars. He was born in Cambodia during the Vietnam War and gained media attention for his rise to captain of a U.S. Navy destroyer.

The information he gave to Francis included ship movements and helping arrange visits by U.S. Navy vessels to ports where Francis' company, the Singapore-based Glenn Davis Marine Asia Ltd, had contracts to provide tugboats, security, fuel, waste removal and other services, prosecutors said.

Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-commander-pleads-guilty-corruption-scandal-052448764.html

[hunter]

1. Small fish are not allowed to play these games, only the big fish.

That's how aircraft carriers named after wretched presidents are built.

[valerief]

2. How dare he! Only Congress can sell secrets. And legally trade on them in the stock market. nt

[Sunlei]

3. wonder how many of those private contractors our military/our Gov/our Taxes pay are corrupt.

We hire hundreds of them with their thousands of employees. Not hard for any of them to download files and sell them off.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Isn't selling classified information by a military member considered treason?

Or sedition?
Surely something more than bribery.