Friday, August 20, 2010

Mercenaries tagged for $42 Million fine

The Blackwater Mercenary Company, now know as Xe, has helped out Uncle Sam by reaching an agreement on a bunch of the crimes its people committed.
The private security company formerly called Blackwater Worldwide, long plagued by accusations of impropriety, has reached an agreement with the State Department for the company to pay $42 million in fines for hundreds of violations of United States export control regulations.

The violations included illegal weapons exports to Afghanistan, making unauthorized proposals to train troops in south Sudan and providing sniper training for Taiwanese police officers, according to company and government officials familiar with the deal.

The settlement, which has not yet been publicly announced, follows lengthy talks between Blackwater, now called Xe Services, and the State Department that dealt with the violations as an administrative matter, allowing the firm to avoid criminal charges.
Hundreds of violations. In a 3 strikes and your out state that would be a whole lot of life sentences. And this does not even begin to cover the full extent of the mercenaries criminality.
The settlement with the State Department does not resolve other legal troubles still facing Blackwater and its former executives and other personnel. Those include the indictments of five former executives, including Blackwater’s former president, on weapons and obstruction charges; a federal investigation into evidence that Blackwater officials sought to bribe Iraqi government officials; and the arrest of two former Blackwater guards on federal murder charges stemming from the killing of two Afghans last year.
But this is a favored corporation of the elites. Besides remember that bit at the end of the quote.
But by paying fines rather than facing criminal charges on the export violations, Blackwater will be able to continue to obtain government contracts.
So if you are unemployed because there are no jobs out there, you are a bum, a drunk, a hobo and probably a drug addict, you entitlement queen. But if you are corporation, don't worry about those laws you broke, it's business as usual.

// posted by montag @ 10:11 PM
Comments:
And they can just add the 42 million plus interest to the next "bid" they submit so everything will be hunky dory soon.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 8:38 AM
 
They made billions from the contracts.

The millions they pay in fines are just another cost of doing business.

Thanks for covering these criminals: integral parts of the Bush/Cheney crime syndicate.

Taking the country down.

S
# posted by Blogger Cirze : 10:10 AM
 

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