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2023-12-21 Caribbean-Latin America
US prisoner swap with Venezuela included promise to extradite navy contractor 'Fat Leonard' who fled to Venezuela while under house arrest for $35 million Navy bribery scandal
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Close ally of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Alex Saab, arrested on a US warrant for money laundering in 2020, freed for 10 Americans

  • US will also get fugitive defense contractor Leonard Glenn Francis (“Fat Leonard”) returned

  • He fled the US last year while at the center of massive Pentagon bribery scandal
Posted by Skidmark 2023-12-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11149 views ]  Top
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#1 Wonder what they'll be bringing back with them.
Posted by Skidmark 2023-12-21 05:49||   2023-12-21 05:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Joyful Americans land in Texas after being freed by Venezuela as part of a prisoner swap
Posted by Skidmark 2023-12-21 06:28||   2023-12-21 06:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Now that they've pretty much written off all the other prosecutions in the the 'Fat Leonard' case.
It now appears that Leonard got caught in a tax violation, and spun up a story to make a deal.
Only managed to gut the upper 7th fleet.
Posted by ed in texas 2023-12-21 08:32||   2023-12-21 08:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Fat Leonard didn’t kill himself.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-12-21 16:38||   2023-12-21 16:38|| Front Page Top

#5 He didn't starve to death
Posted by Frank G 2023-12-21 18:54||   2023-12-21 18:54|| Front Page Top

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