Posted on 07/21/2015 9:14:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway
In February, NBC 7 reported that Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus sent career-ending letters of censure to three naval officers for wrongdoing in a widespread bribery scandal.
On Tuesday, Navy Times reported details from those letters received through a Freedom of Information Act request.
Commander of Carrier Strike Group 7 on USS Ronald Reagan Rear Admiral Michael Miller received a letter of censure along with Rear Admiral Terry Kraft, who was commanding officer on the same ship, and Rear Admiral David Pimpo, who once served as supply officer of the aircraft carrier, a Navy statement said.
The three showed "poor judgment and a failure of leadership" by improperly accepting gifts from a "prohibited source" while they were deployed in 2006-2007, the Navy said at the time.
Months later, we learn the officers paid $50 a head for lavish dinners and expensive cigars and got a discount on ship models that cost in the hundreds of dollars. Leonard Glenn Francis, known as "Fat Leonard," the President and Chief Executive Officer of GDMA, pleaded guilty to federal charges of bribery and conspiracy to commit bribery for his role in a widespread scandal that has infiltrated the highest ranks of the U.S. Navy.
Federal prosecutors say Francis obtained classified information that allowed his firm to overbill the Navy at least $20 million for port services such as food, fuel and garbage disposal when they visited his ports in Asia.
Francis and his co-conspirators exchanged luxury travel, prostitutes, lavish meals, top-shelf alcohol, designer handbags, fountain pens, Kobe beef, Spanish suckling pigs and Cuban cigars for ship assignments and other confidential military information.
Navy investigators and attorneys with the Department of Justice have said there are more targets involved in the bribery ring. Among them are two admirals who have had their access to classified information suspended but who have not been charged.
In November 2013, Rear Admiral Bruce Loveless and Vice Admiral Ted Branch were being investigated for "illegal and improper relations." Miller, Kraft and Pimpo will not face criminal charges.
After 41 years in the Navy, Miller retires as a vice admiral, Navy Times reported Tuesday. Kraft spent 34 years in the Navy and retires as a two-star admiral and Pimpo retires as a captain at 30 years, according to the report.
Again, in the commercial nuclear power plants contaminations occur, uptakes of rad material occur, ‘over exposures’ occur. Yet, somehow there are not any greater effects.
Color me skeptical without specifics.
Hardly an equivalent comparison of “overexposures”.
Again, do you have SPECIFICS?
“Over exposure” is a relative term. In terms of REM, do you have numbers? No? Then this is NON-news.
My personal exposure is greater then 35,000 milliRem. I have had several uptakes of Cobalt 60 and/or Iodine 131. I cannot count the number of times I have been contaminated.
Without SPECIFICS, you are just parroting ‘talking points’.
I’ve already done my research, i dont have to prove it to you. just take the simple way out and not believe the deaths and the rash of pot fukushima cancers of the Reagan crew because i honestly do not care if you do or dont.
I understand. You make claims without proof, citation, or source. “Just ‘believe’ me.”
You May have done your ‘research’ BUT I was part of Naval nuclear power, I was part of commercial nuclear power, I AM very familiar with Rad Safety.
Frankly, without sources, specifics, and/citations, this story is, as they say, Bovine Scat. And there you are driving the spreader.
Your assumption is flawed. Just because i dont provide the refs doesnt mean its automatically bs, and you ought to know that that blanket logic on its face isnt self-supporting.
Now,if you want to acuse me of lying or being the kind of person who uses fake stuff to support an argument, you can do it, but youd be wrong. I think i have enough credibility here over the last 17 years that that is not what I do.
It is easy enought to look up yourself, but i get the vibe that you really dont want to.
Have a good one.
You can do any kind of search engine search. I will,give you just one of many searches you could easily do,google or yahoo or whatever.
“Ronald Reagan crew cancer fukushima”
There. I now await your criticism and rationalize rejection of any results you do not like.
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