Military Contractor At Heart Of US Navy’s Biggest Scandal Escapes House Arrest
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Francis was due to be sentenced in three weeks, US media said.(Representational)Washington: A military contractor who pleaded guilty in the US Navy's worst ever corruption scandal has escaped house arrest in San Diego, the US Marshals Service said Monday."Leonard Francis cut off his GPS monitoring ankle bracelet Sunday morning," Supervisory Deputy US Marshal Omar Castillo told AFP in a statement.Widely known as "Fat Leonard," Francis was due to be sentenced in three weeks, US media said.Francis, a Malaysian national who ran a military contracting company out of Singapore, pleaded guilty in 2015 to offering some $500,000 in bribes to Navy officers to steer official work to his shipyards, carrying out work on US vessels that prosecutors say he overcharged the Navy for, to the tune o...