Leonard Francis, the mastermind of the Navy's worst corruption scandal, was arrested trying to board an airplane to parts unknown in the Caracas airport.
. He reported that Francis was in the company of one of his adult sons.
The scheme defrauded taxpayers out of at least $35 million and led to the conviction of nearly three-dozen Navy personnel in the worst scandal in the services’ history. Francis was arrested in 2013 in a San Diego hotel room as part of a federal sting. After his guilty plea, and after several bouts with health issues that included kidney cancer,Both behind bars and later while on home confinement, Francis worked as a cooperating witness for federal prosecutors who continued to build cases against several others involved in the scheme.
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