{"id":76279,"date":"2017-12-02T10:33:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T15:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76279"},"modified":"2017-12-02T10:34:37","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T15:34:37","slug":"navy-commander-bobby-pitts-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76279","title":{"rendered":"Navy Commander Bobby Pitts sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mick sends us a link to the <a href=\"https:\/\/pilotonline.com\/news\/military\/local\/navy-commander-from-chesapeake-sentenced-to-months-for-his-role\/article_74723e15-9dce-52fd-88bb-d3324946f87d.html\">Virginian-Pilot<\/a> which reports that Navy Commander Bobby Pitts was sentenced this week for his part in the &#8220;Fat Leonard&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pitts pleaded guilty in 2015 to charges that alleged he tried to obstruct a federal investigation while in charge of the Navy&#8217;s Fleet Industrial Supply Command in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>In handing down the sentence against Pitts, U.S. District Judge Janis Sammartino told him that he had &#8220;betrayed the Navy and betrayed the country,&#8221; prosecutors said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; said Adam Braverman, the U.S. Attorney in San Diego.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The judge and I would disagree on what is a &#8220;high price&#8221;. 18 months is a cakewalk. Of course, he&#8217;s giving up his military pension, too, so that&#8217;s pretty expensive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;Fat Leonard&#8221; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-jQj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}