Tag: The Geo Group
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As big money flows, Boca Raton’s GEO Group readies for migrant evacuation on an industrial scale
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Remember the duck test? If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck. What then to make President Trump’s decision on Day One of his second, non-consecutive term to revoke President Biden’s 2021 executive order phasing out Justice Department contracts with private prison companies? -
Pay-to-play lives in FEC decision not to enforce ban on political contributions by Boca prison contractor The GEO Group
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
In a ruling that undermines an 81-year-old anti-corruption law prohibiting pay-to-play political contributions by federal contractors, an impotent Federal Election Commission last week disclosed that it allowed Boca Raton private prison contractor The GEO Group to get away with making hundreds of thousands of dollars of otherwise illegal contributions to Super PACs. -
Justice Dept. won’t cite state secrets to hide identity of person who ‘tasked’ Saudis to aid 9/11 hijackers, but Barr withholds rest of hidden info in 2012 report
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The Justice Department declined to cite state secrets to hide the identity of the person who ‘tasked’ Saudis to aid two 9/11 hijackers, but Attorney General William Barr did assert the legal privilege to withhold other censored information in a a 2012 FBI report. -
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ICE Slow to Embrace Alternatives to Immigrant Detention
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
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