{"id":48264,"date":"2022-09-07T07:20:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T22:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/06\/fat-leonard-flees-house-arrest-us-marshals-services-questions"},"modified":"2022-09-07T07:20:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T22:20:20","slug":"us-marshals-services-face-questions-after-fat-leonard-flees-house-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48264","title":{"rendered":"US Marshals Services face questions after \u2018Fat Leonard\u2019 flees house arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leonard Francis, contractor in US navy\u2019s biggest scandal, was able not only to escape but also rented vans to load up his possessions<\/p>\n<p>The US Marshals Service and other law enforcement agencies are facing questions over their competence after the central figure in the biggest scandal in US naval history was able not only to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/sep\/06\/fat-leonard-contractor-in-us-navys-worst-corruption-scandal-flees-house-arrest\">escape house arrest<\/a> but also rented vans to load up his possessions.<\/p>\n<p>When marshals arrived at Leonard Francis\u2019s home in San Diego on Sunday, they found he had cut off his GPS ankle bracelet and fled, two weeks before his sentencing hearing. The whereabouts of the Malaysian contractor\u2019s three sons, who had been living with him, was unclear.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/06\/fat-leonard-flees-house-arrest-us-marshals-services-questions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leonard Francis, contractor in US navy\u2019s biggest scandal, was able not only to escape but also rented vans to load up his possessionsThe US Marshals Service and other law enforcement agencies are facing questions over their competence after the central&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,70,473,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-malaysia","category-us-military","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48265,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48264\/revisions\/48265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}