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Erik Prince
Erik Dean Prince is an American businessman, who is the founder of private military contractor Blackwater. He was Blackwater's CEO until 2009 and its chairman until its sale to a group of investors in 2010. Prince founded the private equity firm Frontier Resource Group in 2012 and was chairman of the Hong Kong-listed Frontier Services Group until 2021. Prince is the son of engineer and businessman…
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business · American businessman and founder of Blackwater USA (born 1969) · military officer · financier · businessperson · aircraft pilot · entrepreneur · also Erik Prince, Erik D. Prince, Erik Dean Prince, Prince
Born 6 June 1969 · Q749887
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2026· 4 entries
Public attention spiked: 2,605 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.5× the usual 752, with 0 article edits.
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Yahoo: Erik Prince Tells Steve Bannon Trump Should Bomb a Few More Targets and ‘Be Done’ In Iran
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RealClearPolitics: Erik Prince Warns Trump: Do Not Ever Contemplate U.S. Ground Troops In Iran
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2025· 4 entries
WBUR: Haiti contracts with private military contractors like Erik Prince to kill gang members
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Yahoo: Erik Prince: Government needs private sector help for deportations
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Politico reported that a group, led by Prince, had pitched the Trump administration on a proposal for deportations with the support of the private sector
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Prince reportedly claimed to have a 10-year contract with the Haitian government
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2024· 1 entry
“If so many of these countries around the world are incapable of governing themselves, it”
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2023· 1 entry
The United Nations (UN) linked Prince to a deal in North Kivu, a province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
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2020· 2 entries
That the Department of Justice was opening an investigation into Prince
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Prince again became the focus of an FBI investigation into arms trafficking violations related to the conversion of crop dusters into military aircraft
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2019· 3 entries
It was reported that Prince had traveled to Venezuela to meet with a top aide of Nicolas Maduro
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That he was sending a criminal referral to the Justice Department alleging Prince had provided false testimony to the committee
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Erik Prince made a proposal of an $80 million deal to Libya's militia leader Khalifa Haftar to supply aircraft and other military equipment
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2018· 1 entry
That the Special Counsel had gathered evidence that contradicts Prince, and ABC News reported on April 6, 2018, that Nader had met with Prince at a Manhattan hotel days before the Seychelles meeting and later provided hi
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2017· 2 entries
That American, European and Arab officials said the Seychelles meeting was "part of an apparent effort to establish a back-channel line of communication between Moscow and President-elect Donald Trump
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Flew to Serbia for maintenance in August 2018
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2016· 1 entry
Prince contributed $250,000 to Donald Trump's presidential campaign and $100,000 to Make America Number 1, a Trump-aligned super PAC helmed by Rebekah Mercer
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2014· 1 entry
Prince’s planned diesel refinery project in South Sudan (backed by approximately US$10 million in investment) was suspended amid instability, despite reported support from President Salva Kiir Mayardit
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2012· 2 entries
Blackwater's successor company, Academi, paid a combined $49
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And was chairman of the Hong Kong-listed Frontier Services Group until 2021
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2011· 1 entry
Prince was invited to Moscow by the Russian Federation
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2010· 2 entries
The Obama administration awarded the company a $120 million State Department security contract and about $100 million in new CIA work
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“But when it became politically expedient to do so, someone threw me under the bus.”
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2009· 4 entries
And remained chairman of the board until he sold the company in late 2010 to a group of investors
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“I put myself and my company at the CIA”
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After the Iraqi government refused to renew the company's operating license
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“It seems the ballistics analysis was done to prove the guilt of the Americans, not to just try to identify what happened there.... I wasn't there. I'm not going to second-guess them...”
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2007· 2 entries
Career landmark: Nisour Square massacre.
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(more than 50 percent of the foundation's assets) related to its investment in Seligman New Technologies Fund, whose manager was accused of engaging in illegal market timing activity
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2006· 1 entry
Prince contributed money to the Green Party of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, as part of a failed effort to help Republican Rick Santorum defeat Democrat Bob Casey
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1992· 1 entry
And describes himself as a practicing member of the church
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1990· 1 entry
Prince secured an internship in the White House under George H
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1979· 1 entry
And which, as of 2025 is no longer seeking donations and has been sunset
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1969· 2 entries
Born 1969-06-06.
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In Holland, Michigan, the son of Edgar D
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