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18 Jun 2010, 11:41 am
The Department of Justice is urging a federal appeals court to reinstate the indictment against five former Blackwater security guards, arguing that the prosecution's misuse of protected statements was harmless and that there remains overwhelming physical evidence to continue the... [read post]
14 May 2010, 1:02 pm
The Justice Department's appeal of the dismissal of charges in the Blackwater manslaughter prosecution in Washington is in its infancy, but there are already signs of just how heated the appeal will be as the government tries to salvage the... [read post]
13 Jan 2009, 12:04 am
I've chronicled the suit filed by Blackwater against its law firm, Wiley Rein. [read post]
29 Oct 2007, 9:31 pm
The NYT is reporting that State Department officials investigating the Blackwater incident offered immunity â€â [read post]
11 Oct 2007, 9:27 am
Blackwater USA, et al. [read post]
8 Oct 2009, 1:28 pm
RUSSIAN MERCENARIES: We’ll out-Blackwater Blackwater. [read post]
7 Jan 2009, 1:01 am
[JURIST] Five indicted Blackwater USA [corporate website; JURIST news archive] guards involved in the September 2007 killings of 17 Iraqi civilians [JURIST report] on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to federal manslaughter and weapons charges. [read post]
29 Jan 2009, 3:20 am
[JURIST] Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman major general Abdel Karim Khalaf said Thursday that the country would not renew a contract allowing Blackwater Worldwide [corporate website] private security forces to operate within the country. [read post]
31 Aug 2007, 12:53 am
From the Virginian-Pilot, a story about a settlement of Blackwater USA's trade secrets case against a former employee who was a cost analyst for the security firm.All civil and criminal charges have been dropped and the settlement is confidential.Blackwater had fired the analyst, Curtis Smith, and brought suit against him in Superior Court in Virginia. [read post]
17 Dec 2010, 11:36 am
The two firms are working on a deal that will see a group of Los Angeles-based investors take control of Xe Services, the private military contractor formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide. [read post]
8 Feb 2011, 9:25 am
A federal appeals court in Washington closed its doors to the public this morning to hear arguments in the government's effort to salvage the manslaughter prosecution of a group of former Blackwater security guards who are charged with killing unarmed... [read post]
22 Aug 2010, 2:09 pm
According to a New York Times report, the controversial private security firm formerly known as Blackwater (now Xe), has reached a settlement with the U.S. [read post]
22 Oct 2014, 2:31 pm
WASHINGTON — Four former Blackwater security guards were convicted Wednesday in the 2007 shootings of more than 30 Iraqis in Baghdad, an incident that inflamed anti-American sentiment around the globe and was denounced by critics as an illustration of a war gone horribly wrong. [read post]
4 Aug 2017, 2:06 pm
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has decided the criminal case involving Blackwater Nicholas Slatten, Paul Slough, Evan Liberty and Dustin Heard (“defendants”) were contractors with Blackwater Worldwide Security (ABlackwater@), which in 2007 was... [read post]
7 Aug 2009, 1:40 am
[JURIST] The security company known formerly as Blackwater Worldwide [official website; JURIST news archive] and its former CEO and founder Erik Prince illegally smuggled weapons into Iraq, indiscriminately killed Iraqi civilians, and committed a number of other crimes, according to sworn affidavits of two former employees filed this week in the US District Court for the Eastern District of [read post]
9 Oct 2007, 2:12 am
[JURIST] The Iraqi government intends to oust Blackwater USA [corporate website], the private security firm involved in a September shooting incident [JURIST report], from its borders over the next six months, according to a report complied by Iraqi authorities and the Iraqi National Police. [read post]
23 Oct 2014, 11:52 am
The New York Times reported yesterday that four defendants who were employed by Blackwater Worldwide Security were convicted of crimes related to the 2007 shooting in Iraq's Nissour Square. [read post]
10 Jan 2008, 11:00 am
[JURIST] US District Court Judge Louise Wood Flanagan of the Eastern District of North Carolina Thursday sentenced two former Blackwater USA [corporate website; JURIST news archive] employees to three years probation for possession of stolen firearms in exchange for their continued cooperation with a Justice Department investigation into whether the private security firm was smuggling weapons [read post]
8 Jan 2010, 7:25 am
[JURIST] US authorities on Thursday announced [press release] charges against two former employees of security firm Blackwater [JURIST news archive] in connection with the May 5 shooting death of two Afghans in Kabul. [read post]
13 Oct 2008, 4:01 am
Government contractor Blackwater Worldwide, which has been the subject of government investigations on export controls and other issues, announced (pdf) that the company has undertaken a "comprehensive initiative to enhance export compliance throughout its global operations. [read post]
