Crime | Blackwater Blackwater Settles With US for $42M Security firm still faces other charges By Polly Davis Doig Posted Aug 21, 2010 8:44 AM CDT Copied Andrew Howell, former Blackwater general counsel, leaves the Terry Sanford Federal Building and Courthouse in Raleigh, NC, Wednesday, April 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds) No stranger to controversy, Blackwater has settled a laundry list of transgressions with the State Department to the tune of $42 million. The deal treats violations—which include illegally exporting weapons to Afghanistan and offering to train Sudanese troops without authorization—as an administrative matter, and allows Blackwater, now known as Xe Services, to continue receiving federal contracts. The company, having been booted out of Iraq, still has contracts to provide security for the CIA and State Department in Afghanistan. But $42 million won't buy Xe its way out of a plethora of other charges facing its execs and other employees, notes the New York Times. Read These Next We knew Letterman would pipe up about Colbert eventually. A parent's nightmare, in a white cardboard box. The humans survived this flight; the deer on the ground didn't. Close to retirement? Social Security changes are looming. Report an error