High profile U.S. Navy commander charged in bribery case

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Source: Reuters

High profile U.S. Navy commander charged in bribery case

By Dan Whitcomb
LOS ANGELES | Wed Sep 18, 2013 5:52pm EDT

(Reuters) - A high profile U.S. Navy commander has been charged with accepting paid travel, the services of prostitutes and Lady Gaga concert tickets from a Singapore-based defense contractor in exchange for classified information, prosecutors said on Wednesday.

Commander Michael Vannak Khem Misiewicz, who was born in Cambodia during the Vietnam War and gained media attention for his rise to captain of a U.S. Navy destroyer, was arrested earlier this week on federal bribery charges.

Also taken into custody and charged in criminal complaints unsealed in U.S. district court in San Diego on Tuesday were Leonard Glenn Francis, the defense contractor, and John Bertrand Beliveau II, a special agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.

Prosecutors accused Misiewicz, 46, of sending Francis classified information, including ship movements, and helping arrange visits by U.S. Navy vessels to ports where Francis' company, Glenn Davis Marine Asia Ltd, had contracts to provide tugboats, security, fuel, waste removal and other services. Those contracts were worth hundreds of millions of dollars, prosecutors said.

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1. Five years? That's it?

"On Monday, Francis was arrested in San Diego, while Misiewicz was taken into custody in Colorado and Beliveau in Virginia. All three face a maximum of five years in federal prison if convicted at trial."

Good thing they weren't doing something really wrong, like selling weed.