[Peace-discuss] Blackwater/Xe Pays $42 Million in fines so it isn'ttaken to court

[E.Wayne Johnson]

Blackwater/XE.  Just another bunch of really nice guys, poorly understood.

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> Blackwater/Xe Pays $42 Million to Continue Contracting with U.S. 
> Government
> Sunday, August 22, 2010
> To keep from losing its business with the U.S. government, Xe Services
> (formerly called Blackwater Worldwide) has agreed to pay $42 million
> in fines to the State Department to settle hundreds of violations of
> export law. Had the security company not paid the fines, it would have
> been brought up on criminal charges and banned from receiving new
> government contracts.
>
> Xe was accused of illegally shipping weapons to Afghanistan,
> attempting to train troops in Sudan and providing sniper training for
> police officers in Taiwan, among other transgressions.
>
> The settlement does not affect the company’s other legal troubles,
> including indictments of five former executives on weapons and
> obstruction charges, allegations of bribing Iraqi government officials
> and the pending trial of two former guards accused of murdering two
> Afghans in 2009.
> -Noel Brinkerhoff
>
> Blackwater Reaches Deal on U.S. Export Violations (by James Risen, New
> York Times)
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/21/world/21blackwater.html?_r=1
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