From another thread about the Prince of Death..... and below is my post to that thread.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1878924&mesg_id=1879604I've been doing some research on the Prince of Death myself and here's what I discovered
From Wikipedia:
Erik Prince (born June 6, 1969 in Holland, Michigan) is the founder and owner of the military support contractor Blackwater USA. A millionaire and former US Navy SEAL, after high school he briefly attended the United States Naval Academy before attending and graduating from Hillsdale College. After college, he earned a commission in the United States Navy after joining in 1992, and served as a Navy SEAL officer on deployments to Haiti, the Middle East and the Mediterranean, including Bosnia. When his father Edgar Prince unexpectedly died in 1995, he ended his Navy service prematurely. After Erik's mother, Elsa Prince, sold the family's automobile parts company, Prince Corporation, for $1.3 billion to Johnson Controls, Inc., Erik moved to Virginia Beach and personally financed the formation of Blackwater USA at the age of 27.
Prince is the brother of Betsy DeVos, a former chairman of the Republican Party of Michigan and wife of former Alticor (Amway) president and Gubernatorial candidate Dick DeVos.Prince's first wife, Joan Nicole Prince, died of cancer in 2003, and he has since remarried and has six children. He now runs Prince Group, Blackwater's parent company, from an office in McLean, Virginia and also serves as a board member of Christian Freedom International, a nonprofit group with a mission of helping "Christians who are persecuted for their faith in Jesus Christ".
From Newsmeat:
$230,250*............... Republican
$5,000.................... Green
$1,000.....................Reform
$20,500...................special interest
total:....................... $256,750
Notice how he gave money to the Green Party. I think the Green Party needs to do some SOUL searching here. Taking money from this POS is inexcusable, IMHO.
From Fed Spending:
*Note: FY 2007 only includes up through second and part of third quarter.
Total transactions for fiscal year 2007: 96
Total funding (within this search) for the year: $193,309,283Total transactions for fiscal year 2006: 236
Total funding (within this search) for the year: $598,544,990Total transactions for fiscal year 2005: 205
Total funding (within this search) for the year: $201,662,587Total transactions for fiscal year 2004: 78
Total funding (within this search) for the year: $48,699,906Total transactions for fiscal year 2003: 100
Total funding (within this search) for the year: $25,485,769Total transactions for fiscal year 2002: 58
Total funding (within this search) for the year: $4,156,775Total transactions for fiscal year 2001: 15
Total funding (within this search) for the year: $1,048,711Total transactions for fiscal year 2000: 8
Total funding (within this search) for the year: $380,429TOTAL AMOUNT FROM 2000-2007
$1,073,288,450That total is over ONE BILION of TAXPAYERS MONEY
Please keep in mind this is the Money that SHOULD be going to the TROOPS, yes???
We should start asking Congress why they support mercenaries and NOT the troops....
Don't ya think???