{"id":17257,"date":"2025-05-24T15:15:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T15:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new50.info\/?p=17257"},"modified":"2025-05-24T15:15:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T15:15:38","slug":"retired-u-s-navy-admiral-found-guilty-in-bribery-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new50.info\/?p=17257","title":{"rendered":"Retired U.S. Navy Admiral Found Guilty in Bribery Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"66\" data-end=\"380\">Retired Admiral Robert Burke of Coconut Creek, Florida, was found guilty this week of bribery and conspiracy after accepting a future job in exchange for steering a government contract to a private company. A federal jury convicted Burke following a five-day trial, and sentencing is scheduled for August 22, 2025.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"382\" data-end=\"638\">Burke, who oversaw Navy operations across Europe, Russia, and Africa from 2020 to 2022, secretly coordinated with executives from a training company\u2014referred to as Firm A\u2014to secure a $355,000 contract while negotiating a lucrative post-retirement position.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"640\" data-end=\"925\">Despite previous warnings not to engage with the company, Burke used his authority to push the deal forward and later joined the firm with a $500,000 salary and 100,000 stock options. Investigators say he concealed the arrangement from the Navy and filed misleading ethics disclosures.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"927\" data-end=\"1179\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The case was prosecuted by the DOJ and investigated by the FBI, NCIS, and Defense Criminal Investigative Service. 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