Blackwater Billed U.S. for Prostitutes

Times UK - The controversial American security company Blackwater is facing new allegations of gross misconduct after two former employees said that it had repeatedly defrauded the US Government, including charging it for the use of a Filipina prostitute in Afghanistan.

In a federal lawsuit, Melan Davis, one of the former employees, accused the company of employing the prostitute in Kabul and charging the Government for her plane tickets and monthly salary under the “morale welfare recreation” expenses category.

The lawsuit also accuses the company, which has since been renamed XE Services after years of bad publicity, of charging the Government for the use of strippers after Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana. The women were allegedly itemised under “cleaning services”.

The company is also accused of deceiving the Government by double-billing for travel costs and creating false invoices. 

The lawsuit claims that the Government “has been damaged in the amount of many millions of dollars in funds” by Blackwater’s fraudulent accounting.

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