Many Americans have heard the name Fat Leonard. That’s the sobriquet of Leonard Francis, an obese Malaysian defense contractor who, in the 2000s, fleeced the U.S. Navy and compromised some of ...

He oversaw contracts of husbanding services – such as water, food, trash and waste removal – for the Navy’s Seventh Fleet. Pitts pleaded guilty in August to sharing information with defense contractor ...

Two former Navy captains who went to prison for ... centered around Leonard Glenn Francis, the Malaysian contractor known as “Fat Leonard” because of his enormous size. Francis, who plans ...

Venezuela on Wednesday gave the U.S. 10 American detainees and Leonard Glenn Francis, a fugitive Malaysian port services contractor widely known as "Fat Leonard," in exchange for a close aide to ...

Venezuela has released 10 Americans and “Fat Leonard,” the man behind a Navy bribery scandal in a prisoner exchange in which President Biden granted clemency to a financier of Venezuelan ...

Two former Navy captains who went to prison for taking bribes as part of the “ Fat Leonard ” corruption scandal have asked federal prosecutors to dismiss their felony convictions and instead ...