U.S. Examines Whether Blackwater Tried Bribery

[Turborama]

Source: NYT

The Justice Department is investigating whether officials of Blackwater Worldwide tried to bribe Iraqi government officials in hopes of retaining the firm’s security work in Iraq after a deadly shooting episode in 2007, according to current and former government officials.

The officials said that the Justice Department’s fraud section opened the inquiry late last year to determine whether Blackwater employees violated a federal law banning American corporations from paying bribes to foreign officials.

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The Justice Department has obtained two documents from the State Department, which had security contracts with the company, that have raised questions about Blackwater’s efforts to influence Iraqi government officials after the Nisour Square shootings, according to two American officials familiar with the inquiry.

One document, a handwritten note, shows that a Blackwater representative told a senior official at the American Embassy in Baghdad that the company had hired a prominent Iraqi lawyer to help the firm make compensation payments to Iraqi victims of the shootings, a practice encouraged by the State Department.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/01/world/middleeast/01blackwater.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&src=ig

[TheEuclideanOne]

1. Related story: "Blackwater Cleared of all Wrongdoing"

Okay, maybe that is a future headline, but I am sure that at some point in the future our Justice department will find that Blackwater is cleared of all wrongdoing, for anything ever done. Just figured that I would play fortune teller.

[Hekate]

2. Now there's a corporation I'd like to see be dismantled to the last post-it note and penny...

Go DOJ. Please.

Hekate

[Solly Mack]

3. k/r

[SlingBlade]

4. TRIED ? What the hell is wrong with

the fucking media. And WHO buys this shit ?
"Tried", Gee, Ya Fucking Think ?

These War Criminals have "Tried" damned near everything in the book
and continue to do so under the 'Change" Administration.

Rather than speculating on whether or not they "Tried" something
These assholes along with their enablers, Democrats and Republicans should
be Tried in a Court of Law. Preferably, The Hague. :argh:

Yea I know, Looking Backwards, Low Road, etc etc etc :shrug:

[Orlancolon]

5. kick

I don't know why we still do business with them.