Suit: private army travels on more than its stomach.

• Position: Eastern

Moyock-based Xe Services LLC, which has protected officials in risky situations from Iraq to New Orleans, now must defend itself against a lawsuit claiming it billed the government for inappropriate services, including strippers and a prostitute. Brad and Melan Davis of Redding, Conn., former employees of the company once known as Blackwater USA, say it systematically defrauded the government with false invoices for travel and personnel time, kept a hooker on...