▲ 69 ▼ Erik Prince, Founder of Blackwater, Faces Indictment in Austria for Trafficking Arms to Libya in Violation of UN Arms Embargo - BNN Breaking (bnn.network) submitted 3 years ago by Hotchpotch@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org 9 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] TheOneCurly@lemmy.theonecurly.page 14 points 3 years ago (1 child) Just so everyone remembers: Erik Prince, brother of former US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] GuyDudeman@beehaw.org 10 points 3 years ago Just so everyone remembers: Betsy DeVos - Main goal while in office was to eradicate public schools altogether In a 1997 op-ed, defended unlimited donations of "soft money" in political spending. DeVos compared government limits to Big Brother of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Betsy was a founding board member of the James Madison Center for Free Speech which the DeVos family funded and whose "sole goal was to end all legal restrictions on money in politics." "My family is the largest single contributor of soft money to the national Republican Party. I have decided to stop taking offense at the suggestion that we are buying influence," she wrote. "Now I simply concede the point. They are right." Married to former Amway CEO Dick DeVos. Amway is an American multi-level marketing (MLM) scheme that sells health, beauty, and home care products. In 2012, Forbes magazine listed his father as the No. 351 richest person in the world, with a net worth of approximately US$5.4 billion. Mackinac Public Policy Center, which had played a major role in the passage of right-to-work (anti-union legislation) in Michigan, was funded mainly by the Charles G. Koch Foundation and the Dick and Betsy DeVos Foundation. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] GuyDudeman@beehaw.org 10 points 3 years ago Just so everyone remembers: Betsy DeVos - Main goal while in office was to eradicate public schools altogether In a 1997 op-ed, defended unlimited donations of "soft money" in political spending. DeVos compared government limits to Big Brother of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Betsy was a founding board member of the James Madison Center for Free Speech which the DeVos family funded and whose "sole goal was to end all legal restrictions on money in politics." "My family is the largest single contributor of soft money to the national Republican Party. I have decided to stop taking offense at the suggestion that we are buying influence," she wrote. "Now I simply concede the point. They are right." Married to former Amway CEO Dick DeVos. Amway is an American multi-level marketing (MLM) scheme that sells health, beauty, and home care products. In 2012, Forbes magazine listed his father as the No. 351 richest person in the world, with a net worth of approximately US$5.4 billion. Mackinac Public Policy Center, which had played a major role in the passage of right-to-work (anti-union legislation) in Michigan, was funded mainly by the Charles G. Koch Foundation and the Dick and Betsy DeVos Foundation. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SnowboardBum@kbin.social 10 points 3 years ago (1 child) Good. Fuck this dude. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] darkmugglet@lemm.ee 2 points 3 years ago Take my up vote, I came here to say this. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] darkmugglet@lemm.ee 2 points 3 years ago Take my up vote, I came here to say this. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] debounced@kbin.run 4 points 3 years ago old black water, keep on rollin'. mississippi moon, won't you keep on shinin' on me? (but seriously, this guy can fuck right off) permalink fedilink source
[–] werewolf_nr@fig.systems 2 points 3 years ago If that is what puts him where he belongs... I can live with it permalink fedilink source
[–] WhiteOakBayou@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago Up to 5 years. Maybe Austria can rehabilitate him. permalink fedilink source
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