{"id":46149,"date":"2022-09-06T10:15:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T10:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2022\/09\/06\/fat-leonard-facing-sentencing-in-bribery-scandal-is-on-the-lam\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:56:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:56:05","slug":"fat-leonard-facing-sentencing-in-bribery-scandal-is-on-the-lam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2022\/09\/06\/fat-leonard-facing-sentencing-in-bribery-scandal-is-on-the-lam\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Fat Leonard,\u2019 facing sentencing in bribery scandal, is on the lam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SAN DIEGO \u2014 The military contractor who pleaded guilty to orchestrating the \u201cFat Leonard\u201d corruption scandal<\/a> and was under house arrest in San Diego is now on the run after cutting off his GPS monitoring ankle bracelet over the weekend, federal authorities said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal Omar Castillo said Leonard Glenn Francis removed the tracker Sunday, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After police officers found Francis\u2019 home empty, the San Diego Regional Fugitive Task Force and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service began a high-profile search, the newspaper reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Castillo said neighbors witnessed U-Haul moving trucks coming to and from Francis\u2019 home in the days before his escape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Francis, known far and wide as \u201cFat Leonard,\u201d was chief executive of Glenn Defense Marine Asia when he was arrested in San Diego in 2013. At the time, it was the pre-eminent ship husbanding firm in the region. Two years later, he pleaded guilty to offering $500,000 in bribes to Navy officers<\/a>. In exchange, the officers passed him classified information and even went so far as redirecting military vessels to ports that were lucrative for his Singapore-based ship servicing company.<\/p>\n\n\n\t