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Fat Leonard

Author : Craig Whitlock
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982131659
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Fat Leonard written by Craig Whitlock and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author Craig Whitlock’s masterful account of one of the biggest public corruption scandals in American history—exposing how a charismatic Malaysian defense contractor bribed scores of high-ranking military officers, defrauded the US Navy of tens of millions of dollars, and jeopardized our nation’s security. All the admirals in the US Navy knew Leonard Glenn Francis—either personally or by his legendary reputation. He was the larger-than-life defense contractor who greeted them on the pier whenever they visited ports in Asia, ready to show them a good time after weeks at sea while his company resupplied their ships and submarines. He was famed throughout the fleet for the gluttonous parties he hosted for officers: $1,000-per-person dinners at Asia’s swankiest restaurants, featuring unlimited Dom Pérignon, Cuban cigars, and sexy young women. On the surface, with his flawless American accent, he seemed like a true friend of the Navy. What the brass didn’t realize, until far too late, was that Francis had seduced them by exploiting their entitlement and hubris. While he was bribing them with gifts, lavish meals, and booze-fueled orgies, he was making himself obscenely wealthy by bilking American taxpayers. Worse, he was stealing military secrets from under the admirals’ noses and compromising national security. Based on reams of confidential documents—including the blackmail files that Francis kept on Navy officers—Fat Leonard is the full, unvarnished story of a world-class con man and a captivating testament to the corrosive influence of greed within the ranks of the American military.

Fat City

Author : Leonard Gardner
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590178939
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Fat City written by Leonard Gardner and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fat City is a vivid novel of allegiance and defeat, of the potent promise of the good life and the desperation and drink that waylay those whom it eludes. Stockton, California is the setting: the Lido Gym, the Hotel Coma, Main Street lunchrooms and dingy bars, days like long twilights in houses obscured by untrimmed shrubs and black walnut trees. When two men meet in the ring -- the retired boxer Billy Tully and the newcomer Ernie Munger - their brief bout sets into motion their hidden fates, initiating young Ernie into the company of men and luring Tully back into training. In a dispassionate and composed voice, Gardner narrates their swings of fortune, and the plodding optimism of their manager Ruben Luna, as he watches the most promising boys one by one succumb to some undefined weakness; still, "There was always someone who wanted to fight."

Fat Leonard

Author : Craig Whitlock
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982131632
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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The Fat Leonard Scandal

Author : Amanda K Gates
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Fat Leonard Scandal written by Amanda K Gates and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-05-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the annals of military history, few scandals have been as audacious and far-reaching as the Fat Leonard scandal. Spanning over a decade, this sordid affair exposed a web of corruption that reached the highest echelons of the U.S. Navy and shocked the nation. At the heart of the scandal was Leonard Glenn Francis, a charismatic Malaysian businessman known as "Fat Leonard." Francis was the CEO of Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA), a company that provided services to U.S. Navy ships in ports throughout the Pacific. What began as a routine business relationship between GDMA and the Navy soon morphed into something much darker.Francis was a master manipulator who knew how to exploit the weaknesses of others. He showered naval officers with gifts, luxury vacations, and even prostitutes, all in exchange for classified information and lucrative contracts. In the process, he amassed a fortune and lived a life of luxury, all funded by the American taxpayer. The scandal came to light in 2013 when a Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) probe uncovered evidence of fraud and bribery involving GDMA and several high-ranking Navy officials. The investigation revealed a staggering level of corruption, with dozens of officers implicated in the scheme.One of the most shocking aspects of the scandal was the complicity of so many high-ranking officers. Admirals and captains, who were supposed to uphold the highest standards of integrity, were instead lining their pockets at the expense of the Navy and the American people. The fallout from the scandal was swift and far-reaching. Dozens of officers were implicated, and many were arrested and charged with crimes ranging from bribery to conspiracy to commit fraud. The scandal also raised serious questions about the Navy's oversight and accountability procedures, leading to calls for reform within the military.The Fat Leonard scandal is a cautionary tale about the dangers of unchecked greed and corruption. It exposed the vulnerabilities of a system that allowed a single individual to exploit it for personal gain. It also highlighted the importance of strong leadership and ethical conduct in the military, principles that are essential to maintaining the trust and confidence of the American people.As we reflect on the Fat Leonard scandal, we are reminded of the importance of vigilance and accountability in government. We must never forget that those who serve in positions of power are entrusted with the solemn responsibility to act in the best interests of the nation, not their own self-interest. The Fat Leonard scandal serves as a stark reminder of what can happen when that trust is betrayed.

Fat Leonard

Author : Delaney Rivers
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Fat Leonard written by Delaney Rivers and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-05-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the corridors of power within the US Navy, Leonard Glenn Francis, known far and wide as "Fat Leonard," cast a formidable shadow. Whether through personal encounters or story of his legendary exploits, every admiral within the Navy's ranks was familiar with his name. To them, he was more than just a defense contractor; he was a charismatic figure who awaited their arrival on the pier with open arms whenever their ships docked in Asian ports. Amidst the rigors of naval duty, Francis offered respite and indulgence, his company providing vital supplies to their vessels. From lavish dinners in exotic locales to illicit deals brokered under the cover of darkness, "FAT LEONARD" exposes the insidious influence of greed and power within the highest echelons of the Navy. Readers will be drawn into a world where loyalty is tested, alliances are forged, and the line between right and wrong becomes increasingly blurred. For anyone seeking to understand the inner workings of power and privilege in the military, "FAT LEONARD" is a must-read expose that lays bare the dark underbelly of the US Navy's shameful secret.

The United States Navy’s Pivot to Asia

Author : Bruce A. Elleman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100090234X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The United States Navy’s Pivot to Asia written by Bruce A. Elleman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the origins of the US Navy’s 2007 Maritime Strategy, the formation of the US government’s “Pivot to Asia” strategy, and the most recent revisions to this strategy that focus more specifically on China. Besides examining the details of this strategy formulation, the book explores the internal and external repercussions on the US Navy of the Pivot to Asia. It discusses the “Fat Leonard” scandal, which involved bribery and corruption in contracts for the maintenance of the US fleets in the region, and considers the sharp decrease in training and readiness of the Pacific fleet to support the pivot, which in turn led to serious maritime collisions. It also assesses the impact of the pivot on other countries in the region, engaging in the debate as to whether the pivot was necessary in order to convince the countries of the region that the United States had not lost its staying power, or whether the pivot managed to make tensions in the Asia-Pacific worse even while allowing the strategic situation in the Middle East and Europe to worsen as a result of neglect.

Fat Leonard

Author : Eden Francis Compton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781646307265
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Fat Leonard written by Eden Francis Compton and published by . This book was released on 2028-08-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fraud and Corruption

Author : Duncan Smith
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031100638
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Fraud and Corruption written by Duncan Smith and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses and analyses fraud and corruption cases from many industries including construction, finance, pharmaceutical, transport, retail, medical, health, communication, education and military. The book is divided into two sections. The first part presents case studies that cover several industry sectors, including not only well-known frauds like Bernie Madoff, Wells Fargo and the Enron case, but also recent events such as the Theranos/Elisabeth Holmes case. The second section of the book includes materials on fraud and corruption such as the full text of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption, the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business, and the EIB’s Anti-Fraud Policy and Whistleblowing Policy. It also includes examples about current corporate anti-corruption policies from companies like Apple, Tesla and Coca Cola. For interested readers, the book offers additionally a list of films that realistically cover the topics fraud, corruption and whistleblowing.

Mucho Mojo

Author : Joe R. Lansdale
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 0307776484
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Mucho Mojo written by Joe R. Lansdale and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2010-10-27 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mucho Mojo is the basis for the second season of the new Sundance TV series Hap and Leonard. Hap and Leonard return in this incredible, mad-dash thriller, loaded with crack addicts, a serial killer, and a body count. Leonard is still nursing the injuries he sustained in the duo's last wild undertaking when he learns that his Uncle Chester has passed. Hap is of course going to be there for his best friend, and when the two are cleaning up Uncle Chester's dilapidated house, they uncover a dark little secret beneath the house's rotting floor boards—a small skeleton buried in a trunk. Hap wants to call the police. Leonard, being a black man in east Texas, persuades him this is not a good idea, and together they set out to clear Chester's name on their own. The only things standing in their way is a houseful of felons, a vicious killer, and possibly themselves.

The Afghanistan Papers

Author : Craig Whitlock
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982159014
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book The Afghanistan Papers written by Craig Whitlock and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Washington Post Best Book of 2021 The #1 New York Times bestselling investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public year after year about America’s longest war, foreshadowing the Taliban’s recapture of Afghanistan, by Washington Post reporter and three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Craig Whitlock. Unlike the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 had near-unanimous public support. At first, the goals were straightforward and clear: defeat al-Qaeda and prevent a repeat of 9/11. Yet soon after the United States and its allies removed the Taliban from power, the mission veered off course and US officials lost sight of their original objectives. Distracted by the war in Iraq, the US military become mired in an unwinnable guerrilla conflict in a country it did not understand. But no president wanted to admit failure, especially in a war that began as a just cause. Instead, the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations sent more and more troops to Afghanistan and repeatedly said they were making progress, even though they knew there was no realistic prospect for an outright victory. Just as the Pentagon Papers changed the public’s understanding of Vietnam, The Afghanistan Papers contains “fast-paced and vivid” (The New York Times Book Review) revelation after revelation from people who played a direct role in the war from leaders in the White House and the Pentagon to soldiers and aid workers on the front lines. In unvarnished language, they admit that the US government’s strategies were a mess, that the nation-building project was a colossal failure, and that drugs and corruption gained a stranglehold over their allies in the Afghan government. All told, the account is based on interviews with more than 1,000 people who knew that the US government was presenting a distorted, and sometimes entirely fabricated, version of the facts on the ground. Documents unearthed by The Washington Post reveal that President Bush didn’t know the name of his Afghanistan war commander—and didn’t want to meet with him. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld admitted that he had “no visibility into who the bad guys are.” His successor, Robert Gates, said: “We didn’t know jack shit about al-Qaeda.” The Afghanistan Papers is a “searing indictment of the deceit, blunders, and hubris of senior military and civilian officials” (Tom Bowman, NRP Pentagon Correspondent) that will supercharge a long-overdue reckoning over what went wrong and forever change the way the conflict is remembered.

Generals and Admirals, Criminals and Crooks

Author : Jeffrey J. Matthews
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268206511
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (682 download)

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Download or read book Generals and Admirals, Criminals and Crooks written by Jeffrey J. Matthews and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. flag officers are intended to be exemplary defenders of duty, honor, and country—but what can we learn by exposing the bad leaders lurking within these venerable ranks? There is an ugly strain of criminal and unethical leadership in the upper ranks of the American military. Despite the exemplary service of most American military members, a persistent minority of U.S. flag officers (Navy admirals and Army, Air Force, and Marine generals) have embroiled the profession in scandal since the Revolutionary War. In Generals and Admirals, Criminals and Crooks, award-winning author Jeffrey J. Matthews examines bad leadership in American military history over the past one hundred years, beginning with war crimes in the Philippine-American War and ending with the recent Fat Leonard corruption scandal. Scrutinizing a range of leadership failures, including moral cowardice, sex crimes, insubordination, toxic leadership, and obstruction of justice, Matthews offers a fascinating analysis of the bases and motives leading to these missteps and explores what could be done to curtail future misconduct of generals and admirals. The book also includes an up-to-date examination of President Trump’s term in office that highlights the vital role honorable military leadership plays in our democracy. Confronting the dark side of criminal and unethical conduct among U.S. flag officers, this frank and historically grounded book offers valuable lessons in leadership that will stimulate further debate and critical self-assessment within the U.S. military.

Fat Detection

Author : Jean-Pierre Montmayeur
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420067761
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Fat Detection written by Jean-Pierre Montmayeur and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-09-14 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the State-of-the-Art in Fat Taste TransductionA bite of cheese, a few potato chips, a delectable piece of bacon - a small taste of high-fat foods often draws you back for more. But why are fatty foods so appealing? Why do we crave them? Fat Detection: Taste, Texture, and Post Ingestive Effects covers the many factors responsible for the se

Blood and Politics

Author : Leonard Zeskind
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429959339
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Blood and Politics written by Leonard Zeskind and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2009-05-12 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than fifteen years in the making, Blood and Politics is the most comprehensive history to date of the white supremacist movement as it has evolved over the past three-plus decades. Leonard Zeskind draws heavily upon court documents, racist publications, and first-person reports, along with his own personal observations. An internationally recognized expert on the subject who received a MacArthur Fellowship for his work, Zeskind ties together seemingly disparate strands—from neo-Nazi skinheads, to Holocaust deniers, to Christian Identity churches, to David Duke, to the militia and beyond. Among these elements, two political strategies—mainstreaming and vanguardism—vie for dominance. Mainstreamers believe that a majority of white Christians will eventually support their cause. Vanguardists build small organizations made up of a highly dedicated cadre and plan a naked seizure of power. Zeskind shows how these factions have evolved into a normative social movement that looks like a demographic slice of white America, mostly blue-collar and working middle class, with lawyers and Ph.D.s among its leaders. When the Cold War ended, traditional conservatives helped birth a new white nationalism, most evident now among anti-immigrant organizations. With the dawn of a new millennium, they are fixated on predictions that white people will lose their majority status and become one minority among many. The book concludes with a look to the future, elucidating the growing threat these groups will pose to coming generations.

Screening the System

Author : Martha Louise Deutscher
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1612348769
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Screening the System written by Martha Louise Deutscher and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Personnel Security Clearance System--the process by which the federal government incorporates individuals into secret national-security work--is flawed. After twenty-three years of federal service, Martha Louise Deutscher explores the current system and the amount of power afforded to the state in contrast to that afforded to those who serve it. Deutscher's timely examination of the U.S. screening system shows how security clearance practices, including everything from background checks and fingerprinting to urinalysis and the polygraph, shape and transform those individuals who are subject to them. By bringing participants' testimonies to light, Deutscher looks at the efficacy of various practices while extracting revealing cultural insights into the way we think about privacy, national security, patriotism, and the state. In addition to exposing the stark realities of a system that is in critical need of rethinking, Screening the System provides recommendations for a more effective method that will be of interest to military and government professionals as well as policymakers and planners who work in support of U.S. national security.

Saving Our Service Academies

Author : Bruce Fleming
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (884 download)

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Download or read book Saving Our Service Academies written by Bruce Fleming and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once proud citadels of virtue, the US military academies have lost their way and are running on fumes. They need to be fixed before it’s too late. Saving Our Service Academies covers one man’s unrelenting thirty-year fight with the military bureaucracy to instill qualities of force and thoughtfulness in officers-to-be, to show young men how to be adults with other men and women, and to show young women how to deal with the men. Bruce Fleming has spent over thirty years teaching midshipmen and future officers at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis. This position was both a dream job and a nightmare for the enthusiastic, athletic, young Fleming. He found, in the thousands of midshipmen he taught, mentored, and exercised with for three decades, a heartbreaking waste of potential, as promising officers-to-be lapsed into apathy and cynicism because of the dispiriting reality behind the gleaming facade of the Naval Academy. What happened to duty, honor, and country at Annapolis? These values have disappeared in the wake of changes in the world, such as the rise of ROTC and the increase in expense of civilian colleges (the service academies are free to the students), and in the attempt to use the service academies as experiments in trendy social engineering. A staunch advocate for military strength, Fleming shows how the smoke and mirrors of service academies produce officers who are taught to say “SIR, YES SIR” rather than to have the guts to say things their commanding officer doesn’t want to hear. Is that why the US hasn’t won a war since World War II? By writing op-eds about the waste, fraud, and abuse of government (and taxpayer) money, Fleming put a target on his back that the USNA administration used to fire him in 2018, despite being a tenured civilian professor. He was reinstated by a federal judge in 2019. The service academies are government programs that no longer fill the needs for which they were created, and so like all government programs, can be re-examined. Indeed, as Fleming argues, they teach blind obedience in officers rather than informed and respectful questioning, and so sap our military strength rather than increasing it. They need to be re-imagined not as stand-alone undergraduate institutions that wall off future officers in an increasingly untenable isolation from the country they are to defend, but either be combined with the officer commissioning sources that currently produce over 80 percent of our new officers, or re-purposed to post-civilian college training institutions.

Shekhina

Author : Donald Burton Kuspit
Publisher : Umbrage Editions
ISBN 13 : 1884167160
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Shekhina written by Donald Burton Kuspit and published by Umbrage Editions. This book was released on 2002 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay by Donald Kuspit The first monograph by famed actor and director Leonard Nimoy, this eerily beautiful photographic study of the female form reveals Nimoy's intrigue with Old Testament mythology and ancient spirituality. The Shekhina, described by the Kabbala as God's feminine counterpart, is understood by mystics to be a crucial element of both divine and human spirit, symbolising the creativity and wisdom without which no being is complete. Here, Nimoy uses 50 duotone photos as an exhaustive investigation of his own spirituality.

Watchdogs

Author : Glenn A. Fine
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813952476
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Watchdogs written by Glenn A. Fine and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last line of defense for our institutions, and our democracy Inspectors general may be the most important public servants you’ve never heard of. In Watchdogs, Glenn Fine—who served as the inspector general of the Department of Justice from 2000 to 2011 and the acting inspector general of the Department of Defense from 2016 to 2020—explains why all Americans should be familiar with this critical pillar of our democracy. Drawing on his own experiences in numerous high-profile investigations over two decades, from 9/11 to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Fine provides a fascinating insider’s view of government at the highest levels, illuminating how federal officials spend our tax dollars and how inspector general oversight seeks to make government more honest and accountable. Full of revealing stories—from the FBI’s handling of evidence in the Timothy McVeigh trial to the treatment of post-9/11 detainees to investigating the US Navy’s most infamous corruption scandal—Watchdogs illustrates the mission of inspectors general in improving government operations, deterring wasteful spending, and curtailing corruption, and the ways they work every day in America’s unique system of oversight.