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Anonymous ID: daa216 May 31, 2024, 8:51 p.m. No.20949430   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9445 >>9637 >>9701

Former Vice Chief of Naval Operations Robert Burke Arrested by Feds on Bribery Charges

Heather Mongilio and Sam LaGrone

May 31, 2024 3:03 PM - Updated: May 31, 2024 5:58 PM

A retired Vice Chief of Naval Operations was arrested Friday on charges of bribery stemming from an alleged government contract scheme between 2020 and 2022.

Robert Burke, a retired four-star admiral, allegedly worked with two chief executive officers to arrange a contract with their company to provide training for the Navy in exchange for a position with the company.

Burke is charged with bribery, conspiracy to commit bribery, performing acts to affect a personal financial interest and concealing material facts. He faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted, according to the Department of Justice. Burke denies the charges, his lawyer Timothy Parlatore told USNI News on Friday.

Yongchul “Charlie” Kim and Meghan Messenger, the co-CEOs of the company, which was not named in the Department of Justice release, were also arrested.

The two face charges of bribery and conspiracy to commit bribery and each face up to 20 years in prison. The two are listed as the co-chief executives of a training company called Next Jump based out of New York City.

Allegedly, Kim and Messenger secured a government contract to provide training for a group in the Navy from 2018 to 2019, when the Navy ended the contract and ordered Burke to no longer contact the two CEOs.

more at:

https://news.usni.org/2024/05/31/former-vice-chief-of-naval-operations-robert-burke-arrested-by-feds-on-bribery-charges

 

https://nextjump.com/leadership/

 

The DoJ release lists Burke’s compensation with Next Jump as $500,000 and 100,000 stock options.