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G4S Secure Solutions (USA) is an American/British-based security services company, and a subsidiary of G4S plc.It was founded as The Wackenhut Corporation in 1954, in Coral Gables, Florida, by George Wackenhut and three partners (all former FBI agents).
In 1994, The Quiet American, an 800-page authorized biography of Wackenhut by John Minahan, was published. [6] George Wackenhut was known as a hard-line right-winger. He built up dossiers on Americans suspected of being Communists or left-leaning "subversives and sympathizers" and sold the information to interested parties.
The tribe came to public attention in 1987 when they won California v.Cabazon Band; prior to the U.S.Supreme Court's decision 480 U.S. 202 (1987), the tribe had been the subject of public attention, given claims about events involving John Philip Nichols, The Wackenhut Corporation, and the June 29, 1981 triple homicides of Alfred "Fred" Alvarez, Patricia Castro, and Ralph Boger.
In March 2012, G4S announced that it would sell the "struggling" G4S Government Solutions business (the former Wackenhut (WSI) and All Star business) to exit the US government services. [39] In May 2013, Buckles resigned as chief executive of G4S with £1.2 million payoff and was replaced by Ashley Almanza .
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the United States of America that are national memorials, National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places or other heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
Now a brand of the American Snuff Company. 1783 Rawle & Henderson LLP: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Law firm [57] 1784 D. Landreth Seed Company: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (found.) Seeds [58] [59] [60] 1784 Bank of New York New York City: Bank [61] [62] Merged 2007 into The Bank of New York Mellon. 1785 Bixler's: Allentown, Pennsylvania: Jewelry ...
Every so often we hear horrifying stories of modern day cannibalism. In 2012, a naked man attacked and ate the face of a homeless man in Miami.That same year, a Brazilian trio killed a woman and ...
Wackenhut is a German language surname. [1] Notable people with the name include: George Wackenhut (1919–2004), American private detective and investigator; Mario Hamuy Wackenhut (born 1960), Chilean astronomer