‘Fat Leonard’, contractor in US Navy’s worst corruption scandal, flees house arrest

Leonard Francis pleaded guilty in 2015 to offering $500,000 in bribes to Navy officers to steer official work to his shipyards

A military contractor known as “Fat Leonard” who pleaded guilty in the US Navy’s worst ever corruption scandal has escaped house arrest in San Diego, the US Marshals Service said on Monday.

Supervisory Deputy US Marshal Omar Castillo said Leonard Glenn Francis was on the run after cutting off his GPS monitoring ankle bracelet over the weekend, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.

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