'FAT LEONARD' SPILLS THE BEANS IN THIS NEW NINE-PART PODCAST

摘要

Over the past decade, coverage of the Navy's so-called "Fat Leonard" scandal has unveiled scores of West Pacific naval officers who were once supplied with booze, sex, hotels and even suckling pigs. In exchange, "Fat Leonard" Glenn Francis' port services company, Glenn Defense Marine Asia, was gifted classified ship movement information and juicy port servicing contracts. Francis pleaded guilty to his role in the scheme back in 2015, but the portly Malaysian magnate has since kept quiet amid an interminable series of sentencing delays. Now, that is changing. A nine-part podcast series, "Fat Leonard," dropped Oct. 5 and features Francis "exclusively talking for the first time" about the saga, according to a press release. It sheds light on the Navy's alleged cover-up of the case, which has gone after more than 30 officers but failed to prosecute admirals whom Leonard claims took gifts and favors," the release states.