Former NCIS Agent Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison for Taking Bribes from Foreign Contractor

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https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/former-ncis-supervisory-special-agent-sentenced-12-years-prison-taking-bribes-foreign

Department of Justice
U.S. Attorney’s Office
Southern District of California

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, October 14, 2016

Former NCIS Supervisory Special Agent Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison for Taking Bribes from Foreign Defense Contractor in Massive Fraud and Corruption Scandal

Assistant U. S. Attorneys Mark W. Pletcher [phone] or Patrick Hovakimian [phone]

NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY – October 14, 2016

SAN DIEGO – Former Naval Criminal Investigative Service supervisory special agent John Beliveau II was sentenced in federal court today to 12 years in prison for disclosing sensitive law enforcement reports to a foreign defense contractor who was the target of a criminal fraud investigation in exchange for cash, luxury travel and the services of prostitutes.

Beliveau, 47, of York, Pennsylvania, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Janis L. Sammartino, who also ordered Beliveau to pay $20 million in restitution to the Navy. Beliveau pleaded guilty on December 17, of 2013 to conspiracy to commit bribery and bribery. Beliveau was immediately taken into custody at his own request.

According to admissions made in his plea agreement, Beliveau helped former Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA) CEO Leonard Glenn Francis perpetrate a massive fraud scheme on the U.S. Navy by providing information that allowed Francis to evade and thwart criminal investigations into misconduct by GDMA.
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According to his plea agreement, Beliveau acknowledged that he regularly searched confidential NCIS databases for reports of investigations related to Francis and GDMA. Over the course of years, he helped Francis avoid multiple criminal investigations by providing copies of these reports. These reports not only tipped off Francis that he was the target of a criminal investigation, but provided sensitive law enforcement information about the ongoing investigation, including the identities of the subjects of the investigations; information about witnesses, including identifying information about cooperating witnesses and their testimony; the particular aspects of GDMA’s billings that were of concern to the investigations; the fact that the investigations had obtained numerous email accounts and the identities of those accounts; the reports to prosecutors and their interactions with the investigations; and planned future investigative activities.
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In return for providing him with information, Francis provided Beliveau with envelopes containing cash, luxury travel from Virginia to Singapore, the Philippines and Thailand. On many occasions, beginning in 2008 and continuing through 2012, while Beliveau was posted in Singapore, Francis provided him with prostitutes, lavish dinners, entertainment and alcohol at high-end nightclubs. The tab for each of these outings routinely ran into the thousands of dollars.