{"id":34654,"date":"2022-02-03T05:07:36","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T05:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=34654"},"modified":"2022-02-03T05:07:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T05:07:36","slug":"ex-us-navy-captain-latest-to-plead-guilty-in-bribery-scandal-linked-to-singapore-based-contractor-fat-leonardunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=34654","title":{"rendered":"Ex-US Navy captain latest to plead guilty in bribery scandal linked to Singapore-based contractor \u2018Fat Leonard\u2019United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostThe fourth of nine US Navy officers who were headed to trial in the \u201cFat Leonard\u201d bribery scandal pleaded guilty on Wednesday.Former Captain Donald Hornbeck, 61, pleaded guilty in San Diego federal court to one count of bribery of a public official, one month ahead of the expected trial start date.The plea has been in the works for a while \u2013 his lawyer implied a guilty plea was imminent back in November, and a previously scheduled change of plea hearing was cancelled last month due to Covid-19\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/article\/3165668\/ex-us-navy-captain-latest-plead-guilty-bribery-scandal-linked-singapore?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostThe fourth of nine US Navy officers who were headed to trial in the \u201cFat Leonard\u201d bribery scandal pleaded guilty on&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":34655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34654"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}