.jpg "The Blue Ridge, the command and control ship of the U.S. 7th Fleet, was redirected to a different port to the advantage of a Singapore-based defense contractor whose executive is the central figure in a bribery scandal")
The central figure in a Navy bribery scandal is expected to plead guilty Thursday to buying classified information about ship movements by providing cash, travel, entertainment expenses and prostitutes.Leonard Glenn Francis, 51, chief executive of Singapore-based Glenn Defense Marine Asia Ltd., would be the sixth person to plead guilty in the case -- leaving only Navy Cmdr. Michael Vannak Kheme Misiewicz asserting innocence and awaiting trial.
Federal prosecutors allege that Francis bribed two Navy officers, an enlisted sailor and a now-former Naval Criminal Investigative Service agent to provide information about the movement of Navy ships and submarines at ports in the Asia-Pacific region.
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