The thing that strikes me about this is that likely far more people are being pointed at here than were likely involved in this fraud and cover-up. I'm not sayi

The thing that strikes me about this is that likely far more people are being pointed at here than were likely involved in this fraud and cover-up. I'm not saying that the people who have been charged didn't do anything wrong. But for most people who were trying to use Fat Leonard, I suspect they did so because of there being distinctly less bullshit to deal with. Because this guy was crooked as can be, he probably ignored the bureaucratic crap, or was able to push it to someone who worked for him because the extra income from his fraud could take care of it. And everyone in the operational navy probably loathes bureaucracy, or at least everyone else's. Actually, I'm guessing that hatred holds true for all people everywhere. People do stupid shit to avoid paperwork. Guys fail to get paid thousands owed to them for moving their own stuff because they just got a new command and don't have time to chase people down to push paperwork to get paid. They sign off on stuff that didn't actually get done rather than trying to get priorities changed because they decided that the mission of the ship is more important than the second SAPR stand-down this year. So if you have this guy who shows up where you're going to be and just does the work that you need done, that's probably pretty appealing to people who do battle with bureaucracy for a living. Here's a paper on the pervasive ethical numbing in the military (you can find writeups by various news outlets for a quicker summary): http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB1250.pdf http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB12...