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CIA gets Blackwater aquitted on gun running
Blackwater Worldwide, a private company that earned billions of dollars in government contracts after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and became indispensable to the Pentagon, the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency was charged with weapons violations and making false statements but had been secretly acquiring the weapons on behalf of the C.I.A., and […]
Spanish royal embezzles 8 million
Spain’s Duke of Palma embezzled millions of euros after leveraging his blue-blood connections to gain inflated, no-bid contracts from regional politicians for his nonprofit sports foundation, Instituto Nóos. The duke made no move without palace approval. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/22/world/europe/embezzlement-scandal-threatens-spains-royal-family.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1361538155-ZAzdi9ObPXqcA//01zSv4g He and his partner were involved in inflating contracts and moving money offshore. They received about $8 million […]
Dirty Babylon 