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Sunday, October 20, 2013

Senior officer, NCIS agent are among those arrested in Navy bribery scandal

Michael MisiewiczThe U.S. Navy is being rocked by a bribery scandal that federal investigators say has reached high into the officer corps and exposed a massive overbilling scheme run by an Asian defense contractor that provided prostitutes and other kickbacks.

Among those arrested on corruption charges are a senior agent for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and a Navy commander who escaped Cambodia’s “killing fields” as a child only to make a triumphant return to the country decades later as the skipper of a U.S. destroyer.

The investigation has also ensnared a Navy captain who was relieved of his ship’s command this month in Japan.

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