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8 Aug 2011, 6:03 am
The AP (8/5) reported a jury on Friday “ruled in favor of the security firm once known as Blackwater and rejected two ex-employees’ claims that the company overbilled the State Department for its work in Iraq and Afghanistan. [read post]
3 Aug 2011, 6:27 pm
The AP /New York Times (8/2, Subscription Publication) reported the judge overseeing a whistleblower lawsuit alleging the former firm Blackwater “overbilled the government for labor and travel expenses while protecting State Department workers in Iraq and Afghanistan,” said the case “hangs by a thread. [read post]
29 Jul 2011, 1:52 pm
In 2008, two former employees brought a whistleblower lawsuit against the security firm once known as Blackwater (now named Xe Services). [read post]
26 Jul 2011, 7:21 pm
Read the entire article, “Blackwater whistleblower trial starts in Va., ex-employees claim overbilling of government” [read post]
25 Jul 2011, 5:28 am
The Blackwater fraud trial begins tomorrow. [read post]
25 Jul 2011, 5:28 am
The Blackwater fraud trial begins tomorrow. [read post]
22 Jul 2011, 9:14 am
Arnett Bat Conservation International 06/17/2011 Michael Schocket Friends of Blackwater, the Center for Biological Diversity, the Animal Welfare Institute, the Wildlife Advocacy Project, and sixteen other environmental organizations 06/17/2011 Liese Dart The Wilderness Society 06/17/2011 Juliette Falkner Defenders of Wildlife, the National Audubon Society, the American Wind Energy Association, The Sonoran Institute, AES Wind Generation, Inc., Element Power, Western Resource Advocates,… [read post]
19 Jul 2011, 9:52 am
Responding to the Blackwater guards, the U.S. [read post]
15 Jul 2011, 6:11 am
As a Memphis, Tennessee qui tam and whistleblower attorney, I wanted to make you aware of a qui tam and whistleblower suit involving the former Blackwater security contracting firm. [read post]
14 Jul 2011, 10:00 pm
Coast Guard about wide spread illegal dumping of chemicals and blackwater into the aqua, warm waters of Biscayne Bay in Miami to the dark, cool waters of Alaska. [read post]
14 Jul 2011, 7:00 am
Without further independent investigation it is difficult to make a definitive judgment about Scahill’s claims but it is worth noting that he is the author of the well-regarded study “Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army” and has extensive contacts in the intelligence, special forces, and private military contractor communities. [read post]
8 Jul 2011, 1:01 pm
Jack Balkin has authored a great series of posts on the debt ceiling this week. [read post]
8 Jul 2011, 12:15 pm
In his last post, Jack Balkin explains that "The framers feared that a government unable to meet its financial obligations would be unable to meet its national security obligations as well. [read post]
28 Jun 2011, 12:46 pm
By Rebecca DeWinter-Schmitt, Amnesty’s Business & Human Rights Group Justin Cannon and Christopher Drotleff were working for private security company Blackwater (now known as Xe) when they were accused of killing two civilians and injuring two others after opening fire on a vehicle in Afghanistan in May 2009. [read post]
28 Jun 2011, 12:38 pm
One of these crimes was the shooting of unarmed Iraqi citizens in 2007 by U.S. government contractors for Blackwater. [read post]
28 Jun 2011, 8:26 am
[JURIST] A former contractor for Blackwater [JURIST news archive], now known as Xe Services [corporate website], was sentenced [press release] Monday to two-and-a-half years in prison for the 2009 shooting of an unarmed Afghan civilian in Kabul. [read post]
28 Jun 2011, 7:33 am
Bobby covered this DOJ press release announcing that Justin Cannon, the Blackwater contractor who was convicted in March of involuntary manslaughter for the 2009 shooting and killing of an Afghan man in Kabul, received a 30 month sentence. [read post]
Thirty-Month Sentence for a Blackwater Contractor Who Shot and Killed an Afghan Man in Kabul in 2009
27 Jun 2011, 8:45 pm
Cannon and Drotleff were Department of Defense contractors employed by a subsidiary of Xe (formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide). [read post]
20 Jun 2011, 4:14 am
In fact, they were soldiers for a secret American-led mercenary army being built by Erik Prince, the billionaire founder of Blackwater Worldwide, with $529 million from the oil-soaked sheikdom. [read post]
18 Jun 2011, 11:47 am
In related news, Xe Services, formerly known as Blackwater, has been sued in a $60 million class-action lawsuit--where 3,000 former employees of the security and training company claim that they have been misclassified and therefore deprived of important employee benefits. [read post]
