Xe, the private security firm once known as Blackwater, has reached a $42 million settlement with the U.S. State Department over alleged export violations, a State Department official said.
Also tagged department, export-violations, official-said, security-firm, state, state-department, the-private, with-theThe Army private being held in solitary confinement for allegedly leaking a secret military video from the Iraq war to the WikiLeaks website received his first visitor in the past week, according to a Military District of Washington spokesman.
Also tagged first, for-allegedly, from-the-iraq, iraq-, private-being, secret-military, video-from, website-received, wikileaksAn Army private suspected of leaking classified material, including videos and other documents, has been transferred from Kuwait to a Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Virginia.
Also tagged and-other, documents, has-been, kuwait, leaking-classified, private-suspected, quantico, virginiaFacebook, in a rare move, is expected to reverse itself Wednesday on changes to privacy settings after sustained backlash from users worried about how their private information is being used.
Also tagged a-rare-move, after-sustained, backlash-from, privacy-settings, rare-move, users-worried, wednesday, wednesday-on-changesWASHINGTON – (AP) With bondholders coming to the rescue of troubled commercial lender CIT Group Inc., and not the government, a new reality is setting in for investors. With federal bailouts drying up and the economy still in distress, many more financial firms could face bankrupt Read more: Private rescue of …
Also tagged a-new-reality, and-not, economy, financial-firms, group, group-inc-, new-reality, the-government, troubled-commercialSteven Rattner will return to the private sector after leading the restructurings of General Motors and Chrysler. With the bankruptcies of General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group now completed, the head of the government’s special auto task force is leaving the post, the Treasury Department said today. Originally posted … Read …
Also tagged bankruptcies, chrysler-group, general-motors, leading-the, sector-after, the-private, treasurySteve Rattner, the Obama administration’s point man on negotiations with General Motors and Chrysler through their bailout and bankruptcy process, is leaving the Treasury Department’s auto task force and returning to the private sector. Read more from the original source: Rattner leaves auto task force See the original post: Rattner leaves …
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