Overland Park-based Black & Veatch is one of several companies being accused of making illegal protection payments to the Taliban that financed the terrorist group’s attacks against U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
The lawsuit was filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C., by or on behalf of dozens of U.S. soldiers who were gravely or seriously injured in Taliban attacks in Afghanistan. It accuses the defendants of violating the U.S. Anti-Terrorism Act, resulting in the injury or death…
