The trial and conviction of Admiral Burke is suspicious.
What part is suspicious?
- That he got caught?
- or that maybe he was compromised by the Deep State and forced to make bad choices?
- or that he just had some blind bad luck that is all too often a risk that senior level folks face to ensure that they distance themselves from potential conflicts of interests as they transition from active duty into a consulting job with an organization that he has a history of working with on his way out?
- or?
I don't have any inside insight or scoop on this one... but I do tend to give folks the benefit of the doubt as they try to make the delicate transition from active duty into a defense contractor position... It really is a slippery slope...
Navy's former second-in-command convicted in historic corruption case
Retired four-star Admiral Robert Burke found guilty in scheme to direct contracts in exchange for $500,000-a-year job
By
Stepheny Price Fox News
Published May 19, 2025 7:42pm EDT
A retired four-star admiral who once served as the Navy’s second-highest ranking officer, was
convicted of bribery and other conspiracy charges, making him the most senior member of the U.S. military ever convicted of committing a federal crime while on active duty.
Following a five-day trial, retired four-star Adm. Robert P. Burke, 62, was found guilty on Monday of a scheme to direct lucrative contracts to a training company in exchange for a $500,000-a-year job after leaving the Navy, according to a news release from the Department of Justice.
Burke is facing up to 30 years in prison for his role in the scheme to direct contracts potentially worth millions of dollars to a New York City-based company that offered training programs to the Navy.
"When you abuse your position and betray the public trust to line your own pockets, it undermines the confidence in the government you represent,"
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro wrote in a post on X following the conviction.
