1997 zog Prince nach Virginia Beach. Prince testified to the House Intelligence Committee that “I didn't fly there to meet any Russian guy,” although the Mueller report found that he and Nader made significant preparations to meet Dmitriev. Although Prince characterized a second meeting between him and Dmitriev in a hotel bar as a chance encounter of no consequence, the meeting was actually pre-arranged after Prince had learned from calls back home that Russia had moved an aircraft carrier off Libya and he wanted to convey that the United States would not accept any Russian involvement in Libya. [1] He graduated from Holland Christian High School. Prince graduierte an der Holland Christian High School[2]:S. 11–12 und erwarb mit 17 Jahren den Pilotenschein. Erik Prince, the founder of the controversial private security firm Blackwater, makes a number of appearances in special counsel Robert Mueller's report. Erik Prince is a former American Navy Seal and entrepreneur who has a massive net worth of $2.4 billion.He was the owner and founder of a secretive government organization called Blackwater Worldwide currently known as Academi LLC. Im Januar 2011 berichtete Associated Press, dass Prince eine neue Rolle bei der Ausbildung von 2.000 Somaliern für Anti-Piraten-Einsätze im Golf von Aden angenommen hat. in economics from Hillsdale College in 1992. Following her marriage to Prince, she was known as Elsa Prince. [13], Prince ended his U.S. Navy service prematurely in 1995 when his father died. Erik assumed control of daily operations at Prince Machine Corporation for a year until 1996 when his mother sold the company for $1.35 billion in cash to Johnson Controls.
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Prince's spokesman, Mark Corallo, said Prince had "no financial role" in the project and declined to answer any questions about Prince's involvement. "[13], Blackwater came under increasing criticism after the Nisour Square massacre in September 2007, in which Blackwater employees opened fire in a crowded square in Baghdad, killing 17 Iraqi civilians and seriously wounding 20 more. In his memoir Prince says that he provided the CIA with links to Afghan warlords who helped "topple the Taliban and drive al Qaeda into hiding. [25], Erik Prince teilte mit seinem Vater die Vorliebe für Positionen der christlichen Rechten und konvertierte zum Katholizismus. [12], After college, Prince was commissioned as an officer in the United States Navy via Officer Candidate School in 1992.
Prominentes Beispiel ist hier etwa Joseph Schmitz, Mitglied im römisch-katholischen Malteserorden, welcher vor seiner Zeit bei Xe (bzw. 10. [26], Prince describes himself as a libertarian. [36], Prince lives in both Middleburg, Virginia[62] and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. März 2009 als Geschäftsführer von Blackwater zurück und blieb Vorstandsvorsitzender. Die durch eine österreichische Firma umgebauten Agrarflugzeuge wurden im Februar 2016 auf einer asiatischen Rüstungsmesse vorgestellt, ein geplanter Verkauf in den Südsudan war gescheitert. [84] He is now married to Stacy DeLuke,[85] a former Blackwater spokeswoman. [29], Prince was part of a CIA task force created to kill terrorists. [14][15], Prince moved to Virginia Beach and personally financed the formation of Blackwater Worldwide in 1997. Er lebt seit August 2010 in Abu Dhabi.
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"[19], Prince, according to author Robert Young Pelton, reportedly thinks of Blackwater's relationship to the military as something similar to FedEx's relationship to the U.S. Post Office: "an efficient, privatized solution to sclerotic and wasteful government bureaucracy.