Retired 4-star Navy admiral sentenced to 6 years in prison for bribery plot
Washington (AP) -Emekli Four Star US navy Admiral was sentenced to six years in prison on Tuesday. Condemned to charges of corruption A profitable posteriment agreed to make a military contract for business.
Retired name. Robert P. Burke-According to the second highest uniform officer-Federal prosecutors in the Navy, he was commanding his forces in Europe and Africa while making a bribe plan with two business managers.
After a hearing in May, a jury condemned Burke from four points, including accepting conspiracy and bribery. A separate hearing for Burke’s two common defendants-a subsequent jumping common Ceos Yongchul “Charlie” Kim and Meghan Messenger ended with a jury hanging last Thursday and a mystrial.
Burke, 63, refused to address the court before the US regional judge Trevor McFadden in Washington DC.
“This was clearly illegal, as you know, the judge said. But you still did it.
Judge said he betrayed Burke the trust of the people and the oath of duty.
“This is a sad day in the US Navy and a sad part, Mc said McFadden, McFadden said.
Prosecutors asked for 10 years in prison for Burke and said he had exploited his strong position to enrich himself at the expense of the navy.
“Burke’s behavior was as clear and terrible as it was as abrasive to the integrity of the supply system.” Prosecutors wrote. “Crime demands accountability. He requires punishing the crime.”
Burke’s lawyers say they will object to their convictions. In order to ask the judge to distinguish Burke from a prison sentence, they referred to the üm the life of extraordinary public service ..
“This is not a career criminal,” they wrote. “At the end of a life defined with honor, courage and devotion, it applies to a single, tragic and abnormal section.”
According to the prosecutors, Kim and Messenger agreed to pay a salary of $ 500,000 to Burke with the stock options, which are expected to be worth millions of dollars. In contrast, Burke ordered the staff to make a contract for the next jump and introduced the company’s product to other senior navy commanders.
Burke’s lawyers, with the experience of a military commander in the private sector can do a better paid job, he said.
“It was not motivated by believing in the company’s mission and product, not greedy,” they wrote.
In 2018, Next Jump made a navy agreement of millions of dollars to provide labor training to an office under Burke. However, the prosecutors said the navy had terminated the “weak” pilot program after about a year.
In 2021, Burke met with Kim and Messenger to discuss another contract. According to the prosecutors, Kim and Messenger proposed a contract to özgür to ensure the same programming that failed two years ago ”. A few months later, Burke ordered the next jump to have a contract to educate navy personnel in Italy and Spain.
“The truth was that Burke knew that this training was a loss of time and money, and he knew that the whole navy was not suitable for his order,” he wrote.
Burke later retired from the navy and joined the next jump in October 2022.
Reed Brodsky, one of the lawyers of Messenger, said there was no connection between a job offer and the contract. Brodsky argued that Burke had repeatedly lied to Burke about the contract process.
According to a transcription, Brodsky said, “They were relying on the Admiral. Admiral was an expert. Admiral lied and hidden.”
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