With ‘Fat Leonard’ Back in American Hands We Could Start To Learn What He Did With What He Knew About Our Fleets

Case could yet turn out to be the worst corruption scandal in American military history.

U.S. Marshals Service via AP
The wanted poster for Leonard Francis, also known as 'Fat Leonard.' U.S. Marshals Service via AP

What could yet turn out to be the worst corruption scandal in American military history just got more compelling with the surrender by Venezuelan authorities of Leonard Glenn Francis, better known by the moniker “Fat Leonard.” He was put into American hands in an exchange that had once seemed highly unlikely if not impossible. 

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