By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com
The infamous Blackwater Worldwide comapny may have changed its name a while ago, but it hasn’t managed to erase its troubled past.
The New York Times reports that the Justice Department is investigating “whether officials of Blackwater Worldwide tried to bribe Iraqi government officials in hopes of retaining the firm’s security work in Iraq after a deadly shooting episode in 2007, according to current and former government officials.”
The Justice Department’s fraud section opened up the inquiry late last year, officials told the Times.
The company, which garnered so much bad publicity in recent years, changed its name to XE Services last year, though many still refer to it as Blackwater.
