Fat Leonard escape another blunder in major US military corruption scandal
BY ELLEN MITCHELL THEHILL.COM
UPDATED SEPTEMBER 09, 2022 6:31 AM
In a scene from a thriller, a 350-pound cancer patient at the center of the biggest U.S. military corruption case in the last decade cut off his GPS ankle monitor this past weekend and fled from house arrest, weeks before he was finally set to be sentenced.
The manhunt for Leonard Francis - the Malaysian contractor known an "Fat Leonard" who pleaded guilty in 2015 to cheating the Navy out of tens of millions of dollars - has quickly pulled in at least 10 federal, state and local agencies and likely reached across the Mexican border.
The escape has raised myriad questions, such as why Francis wasn't being watched day-and-night as his Sept. 22 sentencing date approached.
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