The Malaysian contractor known as “Fat Leonard,” who bribed dozens of high-ranking U.S. Navy officers in the service’s worst-ever corruption scandal, was sentenced Tuesday in San Diego federal

Prosecutors said Leonard Francis was behind a decade-long scheme, in which he bribed Navy officials with millions of dollars in cash and gifts.

The bribery and corruption that Francis had "fostered" within the US Navy over many years was "aggravated and egregious", but under custody, he helped investigators uncover "unprecedented levels of corruption" in the establishment, the US Attorney's Office said.