U.S. Navy Commander Pleads Guilty in the Run Up to the Seventh Fleet Navy Bribery Trial

/ Published Jan. 26, 2022

U.S. Navy Commander Stephen Shedd pleaded guilty in federal court today to bribery charges, admitting that he and eight other indicted leaders of the U.S. Navy’s Seventh Fleet received more than $250,000 in meals, entertainment, travel and hotel expenses, gifts, cash and the services of prostitutes from foreign defense contractor Leonard Glenn Francis.