The families of three men killed in Iraq sued Blackwater yesterday, alleging that company employees wrongfully killed the men and then destroyed documents to hide the evidence. The private military company, now known as Xe, faces civil action in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District in Virginia. The case was originally filed in a California federal court in April.

UPDATED: Xe spokeswoman Anne Tyrrell emailed The Huffington Post to respond: Xe has strong internal and external document preservation controls and comprehensive policies to ensure we fulfill them. When the company was first accused of document destruction by these attorneys, outside counsel independently conducted a thorough investigation and found no support for any of those allegations. When pressed for provide specific information to support their allegations, plaintiffs' counsel was unable to do so.