In it Leonnig reports that husband & wife Brad and Melan Davis, who worked for Blackwater, claim that the company double-charged the Federal Government, and had on its payroll a prostitute for the company's "Moral Welfare Recreation"
The Davises assert that Blackwater officials kept a Filipino prostitute on the company payroll for a State Department contract in Afghanistan, and billed the government for her time working for Blackwater male employees in Kabul. The alleged prostitute's salary was categorized as part of the company's "Morale Welfare Recreation" expenses, they said.
Not exactly what one thinks of when paying a contractor for security services and also a company run by supposed devout Christian Erik Prince. Prince is a little rich boy with a Napoleon complex, who when confronted about the criminal and shaky moral foundation of his company, ran away like a scared little school boy.
The Davises also claim that there were a plethora of dubuious accounting practices by Blackwater, in which the company either double-charged or simply falsified claims:
[Melan] said in court papers that she later traveled to a hotel in Amman, Jordan, where Blackwater personnel were often housed en route to Iraq. She said that while there, she and two co-workers spent numerous hours generating reams of false invoices for plane travel at inflated rates, so that her Blackwater bosses could overcharge the government for the travel.
Of course, this will be nothing new to anyone who has followed the unending stories of Blackwater's repugnant murdering christian crusade and morally bankrupt endeavors reported by The Nation's Jeremy Scahill here, here, and here.
Huffinton has an excellent page on Blackwater. And of course make sure and read Scahill's ruthless and brilliant expose of the company Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
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