The guard who spoke with ABC News said the drunken parties had been held regularly for at least a year and a half. (Courtesy of Project on Government Oversight)Partying Security Contracting Group Pays $7.5 M Fine -- ABC News
The private contracting company whose employees were accused of sexual hazing and throwing wild, drunken parties in Afghanistan settled a lawsuit with the U.S. government by agreeing to pay a $7.5 million fine, the Department of Justice said today.
Along with its affiliates, ArmorGroup North America, which was contracted in part to guard the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, agreed to pay the fine to "resolve allegations" that the company lied in State Department contracts and allowed its employees, with their managers' knowledge, to frequent brothels in Kabul. The suit against ArmorGroup was originally brought by one of their own -- former ArmorGroup Director of Operations James Gordon -- who will reap $1.35 million of the settlement under the government's False Claims Act.
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