The 7th Fleet of the US Navy has been hit by a bribery scandal.
"Fat Leonard" says he secretly videotaped Navy officers with sex workers he paid for.
In 2015, Leonard Glenn Francis pleaded guilty to providing Navy personnel with over $500,000 in bribes, luxury travel, entertainment, and the service of sex workers.
The first time Francis has spoken publicly about the scandal was in a courtroom.
Leonard Glenn Francis, the Malaysian businessman who was at the center of the US Navy bribery and corruption scandal, now claims he videotaped Navy officers with sex workers he paid for.
"Fat Leonard," as he was known to military contacts across Southeast Asia, spoke publicly about the scandal for the first time in a new podcast of the same name. The final episode of the nine-part podcast, which aired last week, contained new revelations about the scandal which led to the indictment of dozens of military officials.
In 2015, Francis pleaded guilty to providing members of the Navy with over $500,000 in bribes, luxury travel, entertainment and the service of sex workers, but has yet to be sentenced. Glenn Defense Marine Asia, or GDMA, was given port servicing contracts for the US Navy across Southeast Asia, even though it bribed its way into these contracts.
He will be a star witness for the prosecution in the criminal trial of six naval officers.
According to a report from the San Diego Union Tribune, a federal judge in San Diego authorized the defense team in that trial to subpoena the production company for all the recordings from "Fat Leonard."
The "Fat Leonard" scandal has been covered extensively by the podcast. In one episode, Francis claimed to have secretly recorded sex between Navy officers and sex workers he paid for.
Francis said he was not making porn. It's great to see people who are drunk, what they can do.
Insider was unable to verify the location of any tapes. It's possible that Francis could have used these tapes to get naval officers to do things that would increase his firm's profits. Francis claimed he never used them as blackmail because he already had these officers in his pocket.
Francis told Tom that he wanted to tell his life story on the show.
Records of a deposition given by Francis in the San Diego Union Tribune show that he is currently under house arrest in San Diego because he is suffering from cancer.
Francis is living with his children. The mother of two of those children told the host on the show that she hasn't been allowed to see them or know their location since court orders from two countries.
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