Blackwater bribes
Blackwater aka Xe approved payouts of about $1 million to silence Iraqi officials after 17 Iraqi civilians were shot by the firm’s guards. The shootings took place in Sept 2007 in Baghdad.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/11/us/AP-US-Iraq-Blackwater.html
(and more: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/world/middleeast/12blackwater.html )
