Prosecutors said Leonard Francis was behind a decade-long scheme, in which he bribed Navy officials with millions of dollars in cash and gifts.

The Malaysian contractor known as “Fat Leonard,” who bribed dozens of high-ranking U.S. Navy officers in the service’s worst-ever corruption scandal, was sentenced Tuesday in San Diego federal

A Malaysian businessman has been sentenced to 15 years in jail for his role in the US Navy's biggest corruption scandal and for skipping a previous sentencing hearing. Leonard Glenn Francis, known as "Fat Leonard",

Former military defense contractor Leonard “Fat Leonard” Francis has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for masterminding a decade-long bribery scheme that swept up dozens of U.S.

Leonard “Fat Leonard” Francis has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for masterminding a bribery scheme that swept up dozens of Navy officers.

Malaysian fraudster conned the US Navy into disclosing classified information in exchange for millions of dollars in cash, sex workers, Spanish suckling pigs and Cuban cigars

Nearly a decade after pleading guilty to bribing numerous high-ranking Navy officials to benefit his ship husbanding company, foreign defense contractor Leonard Glenn "Fat Leonard" Francis was sentenced in San Diego Tuesday to 15 years in prison.

A defense contractor turned international fugitive faces sentencing for orchestrating the Navy’s most sweeping bribery scandal as the Justice Department braces for fallout from its handling of the case in other prosecutions.

SAN DIEGO — Leonard Glenn Francis, the rotund U.S. Navy contractor, con man and escape artist who repeatedly outwitted federal officials over two decades, could be freed from prison in as little as one year under a new plea agreement he has reached with the Justice Department, court records show.

Leonard Glenn Francis, known as Fat Leonard, bribed Navy officials with cash and luxury goods in exchange for over $30 million in contracts for his business, officials said.