According to court documents, both cases stemmed from the military’s investigation into allegations of fraud and bribery by a Malaysian citizen, Leonard Francis, and his company, a Singapore-based defense contractor called Glenn Defense Marine (Asia) (GDMA). GDMA does millions of dollars of “husbandry” business with the U.S. Navy, providing port-based services like tugboats, fuel and other provisions in foreign ports.
As the investigation progressed, it would go on to net two of the U.S. military’s own, including an agent for another military service investigating the same company, through colorful and allegedly damning emails.
‘Big Bro,’ The Contractor
Before his current posting at U.S. Northern Command in Peterson Air Force Base, Commander and Captain-Select Michael Misiewicz was the commanding officer of the Destoyer-class USS Mustin. In that role, he had “final decision-making authority with regard to husbanding service requirements” for that ship and later, as the Deputy Operations Officer for the U.S. Commander of the Seventh Fleet, “wielded influence in determining or modifying the schedule of port visits for U.S. Navy vessels,” court documents say.