For twenty years the U.S. Navy paid a Malaysian contractor to feed and fuel its warships across Asia. He overcharged them $35 MILLION and bought their classified secrets with Kobe beef, prostitutes, and Spanish suckling pig.
Leonard Glenn Francis ran Glenn Defense Marine Asia, a Singapore firm that resupplied U.S. ships in foreign ports.
He was six foot three and weighed 350 pounds. Everyone called him Fat Leonard. He did not mind.
For more than two decades he was the main contact for the U.S. Seventh Fleet at ports from Thailand to the Philippines.
The job was simple. Supply water, fuel, and