Feds indict ex-Blackwater president

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APNewsBreak: Feds indict ex-Blackwater president
By MIKE BAKER Associated Press Writer © 2010 The Associated Press
April 16, 2010, 3:00PM

RALEIGH, N.C. — The former president of Blackwater Worldwide has been indicted on weapons charges.

An indictment issued Friday charges Gary Jackson along with four others, including former general counsel Andrew Howell and former executive vice president Bill Mathews. The charges against Jackson include a conspiracy to violate firearms laws, false statements and possession of an unregistered firearm.

The charges open a new front of the government's oversight of the sullied security company. Several of the company's contractors have previously been charged with federal crimes for their actions in war zones, but the company's executives have so far weathered a range of investigations.

Jackson left the company in a management shakeup last year. Blackwater changed its name to Xe Services around the same time

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/6962377.html

[SharonRB]

1. They need to get Erik Prince, too

But this is great news.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Yep they need to get Prince too

but he knows where a lot of the CIA skellies are buried, so don't count on it.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. First Goldman Sucks, now this? What, will Gonzales be indicted soon, too?

Cheney would be far better, but still.

[elehhhhna]

4. Monsanto, bigPharma, Insurance cancelling profiteers, EEOC violators, mortgage churners,

Halliburton, UBS, Rumsfeld, etc. ad nauseum.

[elehhhhna]

5. Monsanto, bigPharma, Insurance cancelling profiteers, EEOC violators, mortgage churners,

Halliburton, UBS, Rumsfeld, etc. ad nauseum.