Better known as 'Fat Leonard,' the former Navy contractor, who has already served more than six years, could spend the next eight and a half years behind bars.

Leonard Glenn Francis, known as "Fat Leonard," masterminded an unprecedented bribery and fraud scheme targeting the U.S. Navy.

Former Navy contractor Leonard Francis, also known as “Fat Leonard,” the mastermind of one of the largest U.S. military bribery scandals, was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison for his role in the scheme,

Francis admitted to bribing scores of U.S. Navy officials — including ship captains, admirals and at least one Naval Criminal Investigative Service agent — in a fraud scheme going back to the 1990s. He was lured to San Diego by law enforcement and arrested at a downtown hotel in September 2013.

Leonard Francis, the Malaysian military contractor known as "Fat Leonard," was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Tuesday for his role in the US Navy's worst ever corruption scandal. Francis, who ran a military contracting company,

Eleven years after his arrest, a federal judge sentenced Leonard Glenn "Fat Leonard" Francis to 15 years in prison Tuesday for bribing U.S. Navy officers and fleecing $35 million from the federal government in one of the biggest corruption schemes in Navy history.