Overview

• U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden imposed a six-year prison term and three years of supervised release after prosecutors sought 10 years.
• Burke was convicted in May on four felony counts: bribery, conspiracy to commit bribery, performing acts affecting a personal financial interest, and making a false official statement.
• Investigators said Burke met Next Jump’s co-CEOs in July 2021, ordered the $355,000 contract that December for training in Italy and Spain, and later joined the company in October 2022 with 100,000 stock options.
• A separate trial for Next Jump co-CEOs Yongchul “Charlie” Kim and Meghan Messenger ended in a hung jury and mistrial last week, leaving their cases unresolved.
• Burke’s legal team says it will appeal the conviction and sentence, while prosecutors highlighted a prior Next Jump pilot the Navy ended after about a year as poorly received.