Posted on 08/05/2011 4:34:04 PM PDT by SmithL
A jury has ruled in favor of the security firm once known as Blackwater and rejected two former employees' claims that the company overbilled the State Department for its work in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Ha Ha
Erik Prince is a true American.
Make the whiners pay court costs.
I didn’t realize it till researching something else that former GOP gubernatorial candidate Dick DeVos is the brother in law of the founder of Blackwater.
The Amway dude? Yup. There were some libtards on DU who were making a connection between Amway and Blackwater with ridiculous results.
Yeah he’s married to the sister of Erik Prince. For a guy who failed Harvard business school he’s doing OK.
Good news...
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.
A 5.5% error in billing is small potatoes. I've had worse mistakes on my credit card!
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