U. S. Admiral in ‘Fat Leonard’ Navy Scandal Sentenced to 18 Months -<br />By CHRISTOPHER DREWMAY 17, 2017<br />Rear Adm. Robert Gilbeau, the first admiral ever convicted of a federal crime while on active duty, was sentenced on Wednesday to 18<br />months in prison for lying to investigators about his involvement in a bribery scandal that has ensnared numerous Navy officers.<br />According to the government’s sentencing memorandum, Admiral Gilbeau received cash<br />and gifts from Mr. Francis beginning in 1997, including visits to nightclubs, karaoke bars, restaurants and luxury hotels, and the use of prostitutes.<br />Admiral Gilbeau pleaded guilty last June to making false statements when he told agents<br />that he had never received any gifts from Leonard Glenn Francis, a Malaysian ship supplier at the center of a bribery scandal.<br />Ten of the officers have pleaded guilty, mostly for accepting Mr. Leonard’s bribes of trips<br />and prostitutes in return for routing ships to ports where he could ring up millions of dollars in fraudulent charges.
