A five-hour bus trip to bring immigrant detainees from Northern California to Bakersfield turned into a day-long ordeal, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday accusing a Homeland Security contractor of using a windowless van to transport the immigrants in suffocating heat that caused them to vomit and faint.
Read moreA government contractor said to have lined its pockets in part by tricking a legally blind official appeared unlikely Tuesday to have the Supreme Court nix claims against it under the False Claims Act.
Read moreBreaking through a decade-long stalemate, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that survivors of torture at Abu Ghraib can take private military contractor CACI Premier Technology to trial in Virginia.
Read moreTried three times in connection to a 2007 Iraq shooting where 14 civilians were killed, former Blackwater security guard Nicholas Slatten was convicted by a federal jury on Wednesday of first-degree murder.
Read moreDefense contractor Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation agreed Friday to pay more than $25 million to settle claims it violated the False Claims Act by inflating employees’ hours working on a defense contract in the Middle East.
Read moreA federal judge declared a mistrial Wednesday after a deadlocked jury said it couldn’t reach a verdict in the retrial of a former Blackwater security guard for a 2007 shooting that killed 14 Iraqi civilians.
Read moreA decade after the fact, memories have grown murky in the retrial of the private security guard convicted of murder in the deaths of the 14 Iraqi civilians.
Read moreVying to convict a former Blackwater security guard of a war-time shooting where 14 Iraqi civilians were killed, federal prosecutors primed the jury with photos of the massacre, and followed up Friday with the testimony of one of the first Americans to arrive at the scene.
Read moreAfter a 15-day federal trial wrapped up Monday, a panel of jurors will now determine whether five former military contractors were wrongly fired for reporting supervisors’ breaches of security at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.
Read moreA federal court in Colorado heard the opening remarks Monday in a 14-day trial that will determine whether five former-military contractors were wrongly fired for reporting supervisors’ breaches of security at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.
Read moreThe owner of a trucking company who was convicted of paying bribes to rake in more than $20 million from military contracts fought for relief Wednesday at the 11th Circuit.
Read moreThe defense contractor CACI must face conspiracy but not direct-liability claims from men who say they endured tortured at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
Read moreThe Russian parliament is working on a bill to regulate private military companies, a senior lawmaker said Wednesday after reports that an unknown number of Russian military contractors were killed in a U.S. strike in Syria.
Read moreDefense contractor General Dynamics touted a $9.6 billion takeover Monday of the internet-technology company CSRA. The move comes on the heels of the Pentagon’s biggest budget appropriation in its history.
Read moreFormer Navy Cmdr. Troy Amundson became the 20th official Tuesday to plead guilty to bribery conspiracy charges involving defense contractor Leonard Glenn Francis and his Singapore-based company, Glenn Defense Marine Asia.
Read moreTwo defense contractors were sentenced Thursday to 15 months in federal prison and ordered to pay about $2 million combined in fines and restitution for fraud, conspiracy and dodging taxes. Their companies owe another $2.4 million.
Read moreThe D.C. Circuit declined Friday to reinstate defamation claims against journalist James Risen brought by a man who claimed his technology could decipher anticipated al-Qaida attacks embedded in Al-Jazeera broadcasts.
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With Lockheed Martin in the crosshairs of a whistleblower who claims its fighter-jet program defrauded the United States of more than $50 million, attorneys for the defense giant urged a Fifth Circuit panel Tuesday to affirm a lower court’s dismissal of the case.
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