Who is Erik Prince?

in blackwater •  4 years ago 

"Erik Dean Prince (born June 6, 1969) is an American businessman, former U.S. Navy SEAL officer, and the founder of the private military company Blackwater USA, now called Academi. He served as Blackwater's CEO until 2009, and as its chairman, until its sale to a group of investors in 2010. Prince now heads the private equity firm Frontier Resource Group, and is chairman of the Hong Kong-listed Frontier Services Group."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Prince

"Erik Prince is an American businessman and former US Navy SEAL who has a net worth of $2 billion dollars. Prince was the founder and owner of the military company, XE, also known as Blackwater Worldwide, which carried out highly secretive government operations. It came under scrutiny in 2007, and Erik stepped down as its head in 2009"
https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-businessmen/ceos/erik-prince-net-worth/

"Blackwater founder and former Navy SEAL Erik Prince told Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM that according to one of his “well-placed sources” in the New York Police Department, “The NYPD wanted to do a press conference announcing the warrants and the additional arrests they were making” in the Anthony Weiner investigation, but received “huge pushback” from the Justice Department."
https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2016/11/04/erik-prince-nypd-ready-make-arrests-weiner-case/

"Security contractor Erik Prince, brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, helped finance an effort to obtain Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails in 2016, according to the publicly released version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report."
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/18/politics/erik-prince-clinton-emails-mueller

"Mr. Prince offered to supply weapons, drones and mercenaries to a Libyan militia commander seeking to overthrow the government, according to U.N. investigators."
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/19/world/middleeast/erik-prince-libya-embargo.html

"Mr. Prince, a contractor close to the Trump administration, contacted veteran spies for operations by Project Veritas, the conservative group known for conducting stings on news organizations and other groups."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/us/politics/erik-prince-project-veritas.html

"Erik Prince conducts business around the globe, but in a pending lawsuit, he says he does the bulk of his work from Wyoming."
https://www.powelltribune.com/stories/eric-prince-wyoming-businessman,28675

"Erik Prince is perhaps the most dangerous private citizen in the country."
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a35058338/trump-pardon-blackwater-contractors-iraq-murders/

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