Fat Leonard admiral keeps high-level security clearance

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-navy/2018/03/15/fat-leonard-admiral-keeps-high-level-security-clearance/

‘Fat Leonard’ admiral keeps high-level security clearance
By: Geoff Ziezulewicz    15 hours ago

Rear Adm. Adrian Jansen is one of several flag officers found to have done wrong in the decade-long bacchanal of west Pacific fraud and bribery known as the “Fat Leonard” scandal. He was found guilty last year of taking more than $5,000 in private dinners and wine from Malaysian magnate “Fat Leonard” Glenn Francis while serving as naval attaché in Indonesia from 2010 to 2013, according to the Navy. Jansen also failed to report the interactions and was allowed to put in for retirement.
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More than a year after he was taken to admiral’s mast for Uniform Code of Military Justice violations, Pentagon officials confirmed this week that Jansen still has a security clearance, a status that baffled experts in the field.

There is “no logical explanation” for why Jansen would still have a security clearance, said Sheldon Cohen, a security clearance lawyer. “Under these circumstances, I think a person at that level, at those charges, to still have their clearance, is extraordinary,” he said. “I know of no legitimate reason why he or any other person would retain a Top-Secret SCI clearance with those level of charges.”
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