Friday, August 31, 2007, 8/31/2007 07:53:00 AM

Blackwater Trade Secrets Case Settled

From the Virginian-Pilot, a story about a settlement of Blackwater USA's trade secrets case against a former employee who was a cost analyst for the security firm.

All civil and criminal charges have been dropped and the settlement is confidential.

Blackwater had fired the analyst, Curtis Smith, and brought suit against him in Superior Court in Virginia.

The company claimed that he gave confidential pricing models to Covenant Special Projects, a Northern Virginia-based security firm for which he later went to work.
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