Four Star Admiral Looking At 30 Years

[Rightguide]

Pentagon​

Retired Navy Admiral Found Guilty in Bribery Scheme Involving Executive Training Firm​

By Common Defense Staff
May 21, 2025

A retired four-star Navy admiral who once held one of the highest positions in the U.S. Navy has been found guilty of a brazen bribery scheme that federal prosecutors say traded integrity for influence and cash.

Adm. Robert Burke, former vice chief of naval operations, was convicted Monday by a federal jury in Washington, D.C., on charges of bribery, performing acts affecting a personal financial interest, and concealing material facts.

Burke, who oversaw U.S. naval operations across Europe, Russia, and most of Africa from 2020 to 2022, faces sentencing on August 22. He could receive a prison sentence ranging from 20 to 30 years.

https://www.commondef.com/2025/05/r...ery-scheme-involving-executive-training-firm/

I hope he gets all 30. He's at the highest peacetime rank in the Navy and he stoops to this?

 

[Bray123]

That's weird. Trump has made bribery legal in the US.

https://www.voanews.com/a/why-is-trump-pausing-us-anti-bribery-law-/7976000.html
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/tr...banning-bribery-foreign-officials-2025-02-10/
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/tr...banning-bribery-foreign-officials-2025-02-10/

 

[Rotadom]

I hope he gets all 30. He's at the highest peacetime rank in the Navy and he stoops to this?

When did you start hating due process?

 

[DeluxAuto]

Pentagon​

Retired Navy Admiral Found Guilty in Bribery Scheme Involving Executive Training Firm​

By Common Defense Staff
May 21, 2025

A retired four-star Navy admiral who once held one of the highest positions in the U.S. Navy has been found guilty of a brazen bribery scheme that federal prosecutors say traded integrity for influence and cash.

Adm. Robert Burke, former vice chief of naval operations, was convicted Monday by a federal jury in Washington, D.C., on charges of bribery, performing acts affecting a personal financial interest, and concealing material facts.

Burke, who oversaw U.S. naval operations across Europe, Russia, and most of Africa from 2020 to 2022, faces sentencing on August 22. He could receive a prison sentence ranging from 20 to 30 years.

https://www.commondef.com/2025/05/r...ery-scheme-involving-executive-training-firm/

I hope he gets all 30. He's at the highest peacetime rank in the Navy and he stoops to this?

That's weird. Trump has made bribery legal in the US.

https://www.voanews.com/a/why-is-trump-pausing-us-anti-bribery-law-/7976000.html
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/tr...banning-bribery-foreign-officials-2025-02-10/
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/tr...banning-bribery-foreign-officials-2025-02-10/

Epic beat down

 

[Rightguide]

Epic beat down

Not really. It's a non sequitur. It's important to note that the FCPA itself remains in effect; the executive order temporarily halted its enforcement to reassess its application in the context of U.S. foreign policy and economic interests.

While Admiral Burke may have been in the business of taking bribes, he was neither a business nor a foreign corporation. I seriously doubt that President Trump, acting as Commander-in-Chief, will suspend his prosecution for 180 days to reassess whether the charges or procedures are "overexpansive and unpredictable,” as he did with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Burke won’t be getting an executive mulligan.

 

[Rightguide]

When did you start hating due process?

Nothing I said affects the due process the Admiral deserves. I hope he receives the fullest extent of it, prior to being sentenced.

 

[Rotadom]

Nothing I said affects the due process the Admiral deserves. I hope he receives the fullest extent of it, prior to being sentenced.

You hope he's guilty. Why?

 

[RobDownSouth]

You hope he's guilty. Why?

He hates the military, obviously. He visits Veterans cemeteries each Memorial day, just to spit on military headstones (he's found that to be much safer than spitting on active duty troops in uniform).

 

[Rightguide]

You hope he's guilty. Why?

He has been found guilty by a federal jury in DC.

 

[Rightguide]

He hates the military, obviously. He visits Veterans cemeteries each Memorial day, just to spit on military headstones (he's found that to be much safer than spitting on active duty troops in uniform).

That lie wasn’t just bold, it was Olympic-level delusional. You didn’t bend the truth; you took it out back, beat it senseless, and buried it under a landfill of nonsense. Congratulations, if dishonesty were an art form, you’d be hanging in the Louvre. In Texas, it might be in a torch-lit tree, over an angry mob.

 

[Chernosoth]

He is unlikely to survive 20 years in prison and walk out at the age of 82.

 

[eric_erosfan]

I mean does this even have a political angle to it or do we just argue over everything now?

 

[MasterAnimus]

He has been found guilty by a federal jury in DC.

34 counts?

 

[Chernosoth]

He could be an oarsman on the ferry rowboat to Alcatraz.