Blackwater Founder Erik Prince Moves To Abu Dhabi, Records Say

New York Times:

Erik Prince, whose company, Blackwater Worldwide, is for sale and whose former top managers are facing criminal charges, has left the United States and moved to Abu Dhabi, according to court documents.

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Comments

[Catseyes]

10:21 AM on 09/04/2010

I'm visualizing Prince fully robed in white linen riding a camel. I don't think so. He probably still lives in Holland Michigan.

[Nyckname]

04:08 PM on 08/20/2010

Isn't it ironic that the guy who wanted to have a crusade against Muslims needs to hide behind their burkas?

[missouriwatcher]

04:31 PM on 08/19/2010

Hmmm . . . I wonder if he moved to avoid possible prosecution at some point in this country . . . or maybe just because he felt he were rich enough to do so now?

[blueskybigstar]

01:49 PM on 08/19/2010

repost

It is time that we make the impeachment and removal of Eric Holder our #1 priority for obstruction of justice. In the lingua franca of the day when the constitution was written, the phrase "high crimes and misdemeanors" as stated in the constitution was known by everybody to mean "for any reason whatsoever". This is why they made it so difficult to impeach and remove someone, a vote of 67. We must change things to make it easier to kick people out of office in order to mitigate the damages that another George Bush could cause in the time it takes to finish his term. It is a sad thing that Americans are so uneducated that they do not even know what a "high crime" is. A high crime is corruption of the legal system where people because of their power and or position are able to subvert justice by the making of exceptions or even the changing of law to be above the law. This serial obstruction of justice that Eric Holder is treasonously engaged in is damaging to our country. William K. Black, who did the investigations into the S&L scandals of the 80s says that the reason for our economic collapse is "mass corruption". Won't worse happen if we don't put them in jail? GS, BP, AIG, Chase, the Bush admin., Gates, McChrystal, Obama's economic team, the same as Reagan's need to go to jail to make this country recover.

[TheNarrowWay]

11:52 AM on 08/19/2010

The story doesn't say whether he has his renounced American citizenship or not.

[EJavaM07]

10:19 AM on 08/19/2010

Let's send a CIA assassination squad after him using fake German and Israeli passports.

[blueskybigstar]

01:49 PM on 08/19/2010

If anybody deserves it...

[EJavaM07]

11:03 PM on 08/19/2010

It all leads back to the head of the snake, Iron Dick.

You know he can't let Erik Prince live, with all the stuff he knows about the start of our two illegal and hugely costly wars.

I give him six months, and he'll be killed by Iron Dick's private army, posing as jihadists as they always have.

[missouriwatcher]

04:33 PM on 08/19/2010

Or maybe just a rendition to a country that will help obtain information using "enhanced interrogation procedures".

[EJavaM07]

10:54 PM on 08/19/2010

Turn him loose with that female Israeli soldier that likes to tie up and photograph her prisoners.

I bet there's a lot more photos in much more provocative positions.

She's a little cutie and would delight in skinning him alive very slowly, while taking video of it.

I bet she would even get off on it.

[valeskas]

08:56 AM on 08/19/2010

Of course he is spending the money, he made of us taxpayers, in other countries in this world. He is taking himself out of the crossfire in the USA. These people who got rich in a war, that was uncalled for and killed many young american lifes, should look at themselves, but I guess people like this are without a conscience.

[banker67]

08:07 AM on 08/19/2010

Now that they've ripped off America for billions, these super-patriots are getting the heck out of Dodge before they have to pay taxes on all that loot, and -- extremely unlikely though it is -- might be held accountable to American law for a decade of horror.

[ProgressiveGatorFan]

10:34 AM on 08/19/2010

Republican vision of an all privatized military played out in full.

[ttimotteo]

07:53 AM on 08/19/2010

Too funny

[Edward Standley]

07:12 AM on 08/19/2010

I lived in west Michigan for years. That place is a regular petri dish of right wing nutjobs. Eric is just one o' the boys there. Glad he's gone, but I'll bet he has a really cool "underground lair" now.

[knerd]

05:00 AM on 08/19/2010

"Ya can't touch me now, suckers!"

[dems08]

03:18 AM on 08/19/2010

I'll bet he has good security surrounding him!

[dems08]

03:16 AM on 08/19/2010

Everybody's moving there!

[dems08]

03:13 AM on 08/19/2010

eric prince... supreme coward and treasonist!

"n documents filed last week in a civil lawsuit brought by former Blackwater employees accusing Mr. Prince of defrauding the government, Mr. Prince sought to avoid giving a deposition by stating that he had moved to Abu Dhabi in time for his children to enter school there Aug. 15.

In the documents filed in federal court in Virginia, Mr. Prince’s lawyers describe Abu Dhabi as Mr. Prince’s place of residence. His deposition is now scheduled to take place there next week, lawyers involved in the case said."

[mikesw]

02:32 AM on 08/19/2010

"“He needs a break from America,” said one colleague, speaking only on the condition of anonymity about Mr. Prince’s long-rumored move."

Poor, poor fellow. It is indeed so hard to live in the country which paid you millions and millions to "defend".