{"id":61113,"date":"2025-05-26T10:36:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T10:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=61113"},"modified":"2025-05-26T10:36:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T10:36:03","slug":"retired-u-s-navy-admiral-found-guilty-in-bribery-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=61113","title":{"rendered":"Retired U.S. Navy Admiral Found Guilty in Bribery Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"517\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-675.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-61114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-675.png 768w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-675-300x202.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/magfeeds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250509-Jeanine-Pirro-ch-0948-2a7906.webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/magfeeds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250509-Jeanine-Pirro-ch-0948-2a7906-696x468.webp\" alt=\"\" title=\"250509-Jeanine-Pirro-ch-0948-2a7906\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Retired U.S. Navy Admiral Robert P. Burke, once the Navy\u2019s second-highest-ranking officer, has been convicted on multiple federal charges, including bribery and conspiracy, for orchestrating a scheme to steer lucrative Navy contracts to a private company in exchange for a $500,000-a-year job post-retirement. This conviction marks an unprecedented fall from grace for a four-star admiral and has sent shockwaves through the military and defense contracting communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/magfeeds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-118.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7969\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Distinguished Career Tainted<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Admiral Burke, once a top Navy leader, was convicted of bribery and corruption after securing a $355,000 contract for Next Jump in exchange for a promised job. His actions violated ethics rules, prompting a federal jury\u2019s guilty verdict. He faces up to 30 years in prison in August 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=61110\">also read&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired U.S. Navy Admiral Robert P. Burke, once the Navy\u2019s second-highest-ranking officer, has been convicted on multiple federal charges, including bribery and conspiracy, for orchestrating a scheme&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61115,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61113\/revisions\/61115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}