Jury rules in favor of Blackwater in lawsuit that alleged fraud, overbilling of State Dept. - The Washington Post
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A jury ruled Friday in favor of the security firm once known as Blackwater, rejecting two former employees’ claims that the company overbilled the State Department for its work in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Many of the allegations in the lawsuit, first filed in 2008, were tossed out by the judge before they even got to the jury, including a claim that Blackwater billed the government for prostitutes. Federal Judge T.S. Ellis III said there was not enough evidence to support the claim.
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Burke was barred from presenting much of the evidence she sought to put in front of the jury. She had hoped to present testimony about an alleged threat a Blackwater employee made to State Department auditors. But Ellis barred the testimony because he said there was no evidence that the confrontation between the two men had anything to do with the auditors’ work.
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While the jury rejected the lawsuit’s claims of fraud and overbilling, a 2009 State Department audit found that Blackwater overbilled the State Department by as much as $55 million on a contract that produced roughly $1 billion in revenue.
Assez rigolo, le traitement de cette info par le WaPo, qui insère dans son article des éléments mettant en doute les conclusions du jury.