US Navy officer 'bribed by cash and prostitutes'

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

US Navy officer 'bribed by cash and prostitutes'

27 January 2022

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 (£26.1bn).

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.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60149145

[BComplex]

1. I hadn't heard of this scandal until now. $35 BILLION???

Probably a republican at heart.

[gibraltar72]

2. Hadn't even thought about the Fat Leonard case in a while

Thanks for this.

[Harker]

3. I wonder what criteria are employed to place a monetary value on the

"prostitution services."

[marie999]

4. The investigators will have to have sex with each of the prostitutes and compare them

to ones they have personally used.

[Harker]

5. That ought to keep them busy. n/t