A 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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Investors claim in a class action that they’re being kept in the dark about Orbital ATK Inc.’s $9.2 billion merger with fellow defense contractor Northrop Grumman.
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A nonprofit that employs disabled veterans to make interment flags claims in court the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs wrongly terminated its decades-old federal contract, causing the veterans to lose what in some cases is their primary means of support.
Read moreThe 21.5 million federal employees whose personal information was compromised by the Office of Personnel Management data hack have no legal recourse, a federal judge ruled, saying immunity forecloses their negligence and privacy claims.
Read moreAn engineer for an undisclosed defense contractor was sentenced Monday to five years in federal prison for selling stolen satellite information to an FBI agent he believed was a Russian agent. Prosecutors say the engineer planned to send the $3,500 he made from the sale to an “online paramour” he had never met.
Read moreThe D.C. Circuit ordered a new trial on Friday for an ex-Blackwater security guard convicted of murder in the shooting deaths of 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians at a Baghdad traffic circle in 2007.
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