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« on: July 28, 2024, 10:56:29 am »
Rare Criminal Trial of a 4-Star Admiral Heats Up with Allegations of Lies, Affairs and Competing Stories
 
Published July 25, 2024 at 11:59am ET

The company accused of being part of a bribery scheme along with a retired four-star Navy admiral who was arrested in May has fired back against the allegations and the indictments of its two top executives in a new court filing that seeks to split their case.

Robert Burke, who as an admiral served as commander of U.S. Naval Forces Europe and U.S. Naval Forces Africa from 2020 to 2022, was arrested on federal bribery charges May 31. In a motion filed in federal court July 19, lawyers for the executives of a leadership training company argued they were deceived by Burke and that a $100 million contract they spent years pursuing with the Navy seems to have never materialized.
 
The request to split or "sever" their cases comes less than two months after federal prosecutors arrested Burke as well as the executives -- Charlie Kim and Meghan Messenger, co-CEOs of Next Jump -- on allegations that they gave him a cushy job in exchange for the four-star's work to steer contracts to the company.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/07/25/rare-criminal-trial-of-4-star-admiral-heats-allegations-of-lies-affairs-and-competing-stories.html
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Re: Rare Criminal Trial of a 4-Star Admiral Heats Up with Allegations of Lies, Affairs and Competing
« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2024, 10:57:27 am »
I guess the military pays so poorly, even 4-stars need to supplement their incomes! *****rollingeyes*****
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Re: Rare Criminal Trial of a 4-Star Admiral Heats Up with Allegations of Lies, Affairs and Competing
« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2024, 11:02:18 am »
Quote from: rangerrebew on July 28, 2024, 10:57:27 am
I guess the military pays so poorly, even 4-stars need to supplement their incomes! *****rollingeyes*****

Considering the lucrative perks of his position (pre, and post retirement), he took a huge gamble and lost.
Not sure what punative levels of imprisonment are for this offense in UMCJ, but I'd say he is in quite a pickle.

I'll defer that to @Maj. Bill Martin, for details.
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Re: Rare Criminal Trial of a 4-Star Admiral Heats Up with Allegations of Lies, Affairs and Competing
« Reply #3 on: July 28, 2024, 09:56:20 pm »
Quote from: catfish1957 on July 28, 2024, 11:02:18 am
Considering the lucrative perks of his position (pre, and post retirement), he took a huge gamble and lost.
Not sure what punative levels of imprisonment are for this offense in UMCJ, but I'd say he is in quite a pickle.

I'll defer that to @Maj. Bill Martin, for details.
I think he could get up to 15 years.   And they may be able to get his pension as well, which would be huge.
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