Navy Commander Bobby Pitts sentenced
Mick sends us a link to the Virginian-Pilot which reports that Navy Commander Bobby Pitts was sentenced this week for his part in the “Fat Leonard” case. The bribery case involves scores of Navy officers and cost the Navy about $35 million. Commander Pitts was sentenced to 18 months in prison and to pay $25,000 in restitution.
Pitts pleaded guilty in 2015 to charges that alleged he tried to obstruct a federal investigation while in charge of the Navy’s Fleet Industrial Supply Command in Singapore.
In handing down the sentence against Pitts, U.S. District Judge Janis Sammartino told him that he had “betrayed the Navy and betrayed the country,” prosecutors said in a news release.
“Pitts deliberately and methodically undermined government operations and in doing so, diverted his allegiance from his country and colleagues to a foreign defense contractor, and for that, he is paying a high price,” said Adam Braverman, the U.S. Attorney in San Diego.
The judge and I would disagree on what is a “high price”. 18 months is a cakewalk. Of course, he’s giving up his military pension, too, so that’s pretty expensive.
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That was my first question re: pension.
I’d be mighty pissed had he been able to keep that.
Hope the hookers and hotels (and probably your marriage) were worth it.
WTF is it with these (formerly) ranking officers? Guess the academies didn’t learn ’em permanent honorable attributes. Summary execution would NOT be too harsh for these traitorous swine.
He lost his pension, was he dismissed as well?
Normally once retirement eligible, dismissal is really the only way to take an officer’s pension/retirement benefits away. Then there was a certain army one star who cut a deal at his court martial to surrender his retirement benefits in exchange for avoiding dismissal & jail time – proving an exception to every rule.
The gift that keeps on giving.
http://www.oann.com/former-u-s-s-ronald-reagan-commander-is-censured-in-fat-leonard-probe/
“The U.S. Navy censures a retired commander of the U.S.S.Ronald Reagan over his alleged involvement with the “Fat Leonard” corruption scheme.”
Retirement is not a cover, either.
What, they do don’t have enough privilege and money, they have to resort to selling out their country for hookers and a big mac?
But at least there were no dicks in the sky. You know, stuff that really offends people…
This just amazes me! All these comments and I bet the ones commenting are not military or ex military. My memory of being in the military is that you have to follow orders and do as you are told so as to not be insubordinate? Give that some thought before you just make a statement without knowing all the facts😳
Yeah, Most of us were in the military.
I remember hearing that defense at the Nuremberg Trials.
What facts? You trying to tell us that he was NOT sentenced? That he did NOT plead guilty?
What?
Sounds like somebody got some animosity, but it may be misdirected.
Also, just so ya know, if we refuse to follow an unlawful order it is not insubordination.
Please be so kind as to beat your fucking face.
He pled guilty 2 years ago.
He (and you) deserve nothing but our scorn and contempt.
Gee, sounds like one Deanna Pitts is all butthurt and uninformed about something.
My memory of being in the military doesn’t include anyone getting off scot-free for fraud, obstructing legal investigations, or accepting bribes.
Your “time in the military” must have been different from mine. I guess people had better morals when I was IN.
Boy, he really hit the Pitts on this one.
And yet that bag of shit bergdahl still walked….