Booze, Bribes, and Prostitutes: How Fat Leonard Seduced the U.S. Navy

Angry Planet

Matthew Gault

War, Politics, Conflict, Government, History, News

4.3 • 882 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

It’s the greatest story you probably don’t know anything about. Or, at least, you have no idea how bad it actually is. The U.S. 7th Fleet is the most powerful Navy in the history of the world. Its area of operations stretches throughout the Pacific. It comprised of up of upwards of 70 ships, 400 aircraft, and around 40,000 sailors and Marines. For about a far too many years it was the plaything of a Malaysian playboy who grifted a fortune off the American taxpayer.

We’re finally doing it. We’re finally doing a Fat Leonard episode.

Our guest today is journalist, best selling author, and host of the incredible Fat Leonard Podcast, Tom Wright. The nine part Fat Leonard Podcast is, for my money, the most comprehensive and well researched version of the story we’re going to lay out for you here. If you’re interested at all in what you’re about to hear, you must check it out.

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0:25.0	Frankly, that seems to be the problem.
0:31.0	Welcome to Angry Planet. Hello and I'm
0:43.4	welcome to Angry Planet. I'm Matthew Gault and I'm Jason Field.
0:47.8	It's the greatest story you probably don't know anything about or at least you have no idea how bad it actually is.
0:56.8	The US 7th Fleet is the most powerful Navy in the history of the world.
1:01.7	Its area of operation stretches through the Pacific. It's comprised of upwards 70 ships, 400 aircraft, and around 40,000 sailors and Marines. And for far too many years,
1:14.1	this powerful naval force was the plaything
1:16.6	of a Malaysian playboy who grifted a fortune
1:19.5	off the American taxpayer.
1:21.4	We're finally doing it. I've talked about it vaguely on multiple
1:25.7	episodes of this show. We are finally doing a Fat Leonard episode and our
1:29.9	guest today is journalist and best-selling author and the host of the incredible Fat Leonard
1:34.4	Podcast, Tom Wright. The nine-part show is, for my money, the most comprehensive and well-researched
1:41.6	version of the story, and we're going to lay out a very small
1:44.9	version of it today for you and if you're interested at all in what you hear you have to go check out the
1:50.2	Fat Leonard podcast it's everywhere and it, it's a deep dive into this.
1:54.8	Tom, thank you so much for joining us.
1:56.8	Thank you for having me.
1:58.3	Okay, so your show, this is something I've been following for a long time. I've read a lot of the court documents.
2:05.0	And your show opens on a very specific image that I think if you are telling the Fat Leonard story,
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