A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday dismissed the felony convictions of five retired military officers who had admitted to accepting bribes from a Malaysian contractor nicknamed “Fat Leonard” in one of the navy’s biggest corruption cases.
The dismissals came at the request of the government — not the defence — citing prosecutorial errors.
Retired U.S. navy officers Donald Hornbeck, Robert Gorsuch and Jose Luis Sanchez, and U.S. Marine Corps Col. Enrico DeGuzman pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of disclosing information on Tuesday, while U.S. navy officer Stephen Shedd’s entire case was thrown out. Their defence lawyers could not be immediately reached for comment.
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