{"id":2789,"date":"2025-09-17T21:07:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T21:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/?p=2789"},"modified":"2025-09-22T18:43:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T18:43:54","slug":"former-top-us-navy-commander-jailed-in-bribery-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/former-top-us-navy-commander-jailed-in-bribery-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Former top US Navy commander jailed in bribery case"},"content":{"rendered":"

Retired Admiral Robert Burke has been sentenced to six years for awarding a government contract to a firm in exchange for a cushy job<\/strong><\/p>\n

Retired US Navy Admiral Robert Burke has been sentenced to six years in prison and slapped with a hefty fine for bribery, federal prosecutors have announced. The 62-year-old was found guilty of awarding a government contract to a company in exchange for future employment at the firm.<\/p>\n

The four-star admiral was once the second-highest uniformed officer in the Navy, commanding its forces in Europe and Africa. In a statement on Tuesday, prosecutors said that in May a jury found Burke guilty of bribery and conspiracy, and several other related crimes.<\/p>\n

According to the document, the admiral used his position to ensure that the company, identified in the media as Next Jump, was awarded a government contract for providing workforce training to Navy personnel in 2021. A previous multimillion-dollar contract with the company had been terminated two years prior as it had been “poorly received,”<\/em> prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

It was revealed that Burke had privately met with Yongchul Kim and Meghan Messenger, the co-CEOs of the firm, who offered to provide the commander with future employment with the company in exchange for his patronage. According to officials, the new $355,000-contract envisaged the provision of “basically the same programming that had failed two years earlier.”<\/em> <\/p>\n

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After his retirement from the Navy in 2022, the admiral started working at Next Jump at a yearly starting salary of $500,000 and a grant of 100,000 in stock options, the statement read.<\/p>\n

US Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro accused the commander of “turning four stars into dollar signs and trading duty for a corporate payday.”<\/em> <\/p>\n

The admiral’s attorneys said they would appeal his convictions, describing his conduct as a “tragic deviation from his well-established character at a time of immense professional and personal stress at the twilight of a demanding forty-year career.”<\/em> <\/p>\n

They also noted that the $500,000 salary and stock options Next Jump had offered as compensation were “substantially below what a retired four-star admiral could command in the private sector,”<\/em> implying that the scheme made little sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Retired Admiral Robert Burke has been sentenced to six years for awarding a government contract to a firm in exchange for a cushy job Retired US Navy Admiral Robert Burke has been sentenced to six years in prison and slapped with a hefty fine for bribery, federal prosecutors have announced….<\/p>\n

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