https://www.siliconvalley.com/2025/04/24/fat-leonard-appeals-15-year-sentence-but-does-so-under-seal-at-least-for-now/

Leonard Glenn Francis, the Malaysian contractor known as “Fat Leonard” at the center of the U.S. Navy’s worst-ever bribery and corruption scandal, has appealed the 15-year prison term he was sentenced to last year — but his arguments supporting the appeal remain a mystery, for now.

That’s because the opening appeal brief, filed last week with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, was submitted under seal. A motion to seal the opening brief was also apparently filed under seal.