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Blackwater founder to speak at Tulip Time luncheon
April 14, 2010A Michigan native whose security company was banned from Iraq after a 2007 shooting left 17 Iraqis dead will serve as guest speaker at the Tulip Time Festival Luncheon in Holland.
The Grand Rapids Press reports that life experiences and lessons learned while growing up in the southwestern Michigan city of Holland are among the topics that Erik Prince will discuss May 5 at DeVos Fieldhouse.
Prince is founder of Myock, N.C.-based Blackwater, now known as Xe Services, whose family fortune was made in the auto parts industry.
His sister, Betsy DeVos, a former chairwoman of the Michigan GOP, is married to Dick DeVos, a Republican and Amway Corp. heir who unsuccessfully ran for governor in 2006.The State Department renewed Blackwater's contract in 2008.
Tulip Time Festival Luncheon tickets may be purchased on the festival's Web site or by calling 616-396-4221
http://www.freep.com/article/20100414/NEWS06/100414018/1322/Blackwater-founder-to-speak-at-Tulip-Time-luncheon
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