The U.S. Department of justice reports that Leonard Glenn Francis, owner and chief executive of Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA), pleaded guilty to bribery and fraud charges in federal court last month, admitting that he presided over a decade-long conspiracy involving "scores" of U.S. Navy officials, tens of millions of dollars in fraud and millions of dollars in bribes and gifts. Francis pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery, bribery and conspiracy to defraud the United States before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jan M. Adler of the Southern District of California. GDMA likewise pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery, bribery and conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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