{"id":261353,"date":"2010-02-01T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079894.post-3542371015148965555"},"modified":"2010-02-01T12:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T17:59:00","slug":"blackwater-under-investigation-for-bribing-iraq-officials-following-2007-deaths-nyt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/261353","title":{"rendered":"Blackwater under investigation for bribing Iraq officials following 2007 deaths: NYT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[JURIST] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating whether Blackwater, now known as Xe, bribed Iraqi officials to allow them to continue operating in the country following shooting deaths in 2007, the New York Times reported Monday. The fraud division of the DOJ reportedly began an inquiry into the alleged $1 million bribery in late 2009. Bribery of foreign officials is a violation of 15 USC &#038;sect 78dd-1, a provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Blackwater will likely claim that the $1 million was restitution to the families of the individuals killed in 2007, which would exempt the company from violation of federal law. A conviction under the FCPA may include both criminal and civil penalties.<br \/>\nIn December, a federal judge dismissed charges against the five Blackwater employees believed to be responsible for the 2007 shooting deaths, prompting Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to announce that Iraq will file lawsuits against Blackwater in both US and Iraqi courts. US Vice-President Joe Biden has said that the DOJ will appeal the dismissal. Blackwater ceased operations in Baghdad in May 2009 when its security contracts for the protection of US diplomats expired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[JURIST] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating whether Blackwater, now known as Xe, bribed Iraqi officials to allow them to continue operating in the country following shooting deaths in 2007, the New York Times reported Monday. The fraud division of the DOJ reportedly began an inquiry into the alleged $1 million bribery in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4174,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}