The former president of Blackwater Worldwide was charged Friday with using straw purchases to stockpile automatic weapons at the security firm and filing false documents to cover up gifts given to ...

Private military contractor Erik Prince, the former Navy SEAL and founder of Blackwater Worldwide, is working with the ...

Senate investigators accuse Blackwater of reckless behavior and deception. Feb. 25, 2010 — -- A Senate committee Wednesday lambasted the private military company formerly known as Blackwater ...

The Haitian government has signed a contract with Mr. Prince, the private military contractor who founded Blackwater, a ...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- The former president of Blackwater Worldwide was charged Friday with using straw purchases to stockpile automatic weapons at the security firm and filing false documents to cover ...

Five ex-executives from Blackwater, the highly controsersial security firm, were charged Friday with illegally acquiring automatic weapons and filing false documents. Some weapons were gifts to the ...

The firings, most frequently for weapons-related incidents, amount to more than one-seventh of Blackwater’s current work force in Iraq. None of the people fired has been subject to any legal ...

Maguire says he has information about the gift guns and “how the U.S. government’s authorization for the transfer of those weapons took place.” The former Blackwater executives are asking ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Blackwater improperly obtained hundreds of weapons intended for use by ...

Via Scahill’s article: Among the additional allegations made by Doe #1 is that “Blackwater was smuggling weapons into Iraq.” He states that he personally witnessed weapons being “pulled ...

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors are considering filing weapons charges against former top officials of the Blackwater Worldwide private security company over allegations they illegally ...

Blackwater spokesperson Anne Duke also said the company has a letter from Louisiana officials authorizing its forces to carry loaded weapons. "This vigilantism demonstrates the utter breakdown of ...