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    Contractors Settle False Claims Allegations Related to USAID Food Aid Storage/Redelivery For $1.075M

    Contractors Settle False Claims Allegations Related to USAID Food Aid Storage/Redelivery For $1.075M August 16, 2016 Posted: 3:55 am ET Via USDOJ: Jacintoport International LLC and Seaboard Marine Ltd Agree to… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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    Ex-Marksmen Win Expanded Discovery In Blackwater FCA Row

    Ex-Marksmen Win Expanded Discovery In Blackwater FCA Row By Michael Macagnone Law360, Washington (July 26, 2016, 6:50 PM ET) — A pair of former Academi employees won over a Virginia magistrate… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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    Judge Tosses Lawsuit Blaming Twitter For Aiding ISIS In Security Contractor’s Death

    Lauren C. Williams Lauren C. Williams Tech reporter at ThinkProgress. Get at me: lwilliams@thinkprogress.org Judge Tosses Lawsuit Blaming Twitter For Aiding ISIS In Security Contractor’s Death CREDIT: AP PHOTO/RICHARD DREW A… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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    Dogs of War or Jackals of Terror? Foreign Fighters and Mercenaries in International Law

    Dogs of War or Jackals of Terror? Foreign Fighters and Mercenaries in International Law You must be logged in to view this content. Click here to subscribe  

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    Last Western Prisoner Leaves Afghanistan After Pardon

    Last Western Prisoner Leaves Afghanistan After Pardon Robert Langdon was held in high-security facility for seven years Robert Langdon, who was initially sentenced to death in the 2009 shooting of an… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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    DynCorp exec responds to DOJ fraud allegations

    DynCorp exec responds to DOJ fraud allegations Aug 5, 2016, 4:52pm EDT Updated Aug 5, 2016, 5:15pm EDT James Bach Staff Reporter Washington Business Journal Related Content DynCorp faces uphill battle… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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    KBR Blasts ‘Parade Of Falsehoods’ In Soldiers’ Burn Pit MDL

    KBR Blasts ‘Parade Of Falsehoods’ In Soldiers’ Burn Pit MDL By Bryan Koenig Law360, Washington (June 20, 2016, 1:22 PM ET) — KBR assailed the discovery efforts of a group of… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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    USAID Reconstruction Contracts in Afghanistan and Iraq Bites Former Louis Berger Executives

    from Diplopundit USAID Reconstruction Contracts in Afghanistan and Iraq Bites Former Louis Berger Executives August 3, 2016In May 2015,  the former president, chief executive officer, and chairman of the board of… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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    American Tortured in DRC Sues Congolese Officials

    American Tortured in DRC Sues Congolese Officials Suzanne Monyak, The National Law Journal August 1, 2016 Darryl Lewis, American contractor suing officials of the Democratic Republic of Congo An American military… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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    High Court Remands Triple Canopy FCA Suit After Escobar

    High Court Remands Triple Canopy FCA Suit After Escobar By Bryan Koenig Law360, Washington (June 27, 2016, 12:44 PM ET) — The U.S. Supreme Court vacated a Fourth Circuit decision holding… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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