is this all just a big real estate scam? It feels like a very big real estate scam. They're overpaying for these properties and paying people massive sums. insert "I guarantee it" meme here.
The seemingly accidental exposure of the identities of DHS personnel who crafted Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s mega detention center plan lands amid widespread public pushback against the expansion of ICE detention centers and the department’s brutal immigration enforcement tactics.
Metadata in the document, which concerns ICE’s “Detention Reengineering Initiative” (DRI), lists as its author Jonathan Florentino, the director of ICE’s Newark, New Jersey Field Office of Enforcement and Removal Operations.
In a note embedded on top of an FAQ question, “What is the average length of stay for the aliens?” Tim Kaiser, the deputy chief of staff for US Citizenship and Immigration Services, asked David Venturella, a former GEO Group executive whom The Washington Post described as an adviser overseeing an ICE division that manages detention center contracts, to “Please confirm” that the average stay for the new mega detention centers would be 60 days.
Venturella replied in a note that remained visible on the published document, “Ideally, I'd like to see a 30-day average for the Mega Center but 60 is fine.”
DHS did not respond to a request for comment about what the three men’s role in the DRI project is, nor did it answer questions about whether Florentino had access to a PDF processor subscription that might have enabled him to scrub metadata and comments from the PDF before sending it to the New Hampshire governor. (The so-called Department of Government Efficiency spent last year slashing the number of software licenses across the federal government.)
At least their names are public now, so when the US version of the Nuremburg Trials happen, they'll at least have some of the organisers of the concentration camps to hold to account..
With real estate you just play the LLC game to launder money through services with your property. Those LLC’s are in the name of family and everyone wins.
leatherpantsgod | a day ago
is this all just a big real estate scam? It feels like a very big real estate scam. They're overpaying for these properties and paying people massive sums. insert "I guarantee it" meme here.
WillBottomForBanana | a day ago
there's a non-zero amount of long term grift where tax money pays for these camps and the internment.
weirdoldhobo1978 | a day ago
Welcome to the grift economy. It's just scams, shams, and oh damns all the way down.
[OP] wiredmagazine | a day ago
A PDF that Department of Homeland Security officials provided to New Hampshire governor Kelly Ayotte’s office about a new effort to build “mega” detention and processing centers across the United States contains embedded comments and metadata identifying the people who worked on it.
The seemingly accidental exposure of the identities of DHS personnel who crafted Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s mega detention center plan lands amid widespread public pushback against the expansion of ICE detention centers and the department’s brutal immigration enforcement tactics.
Metadata in the document, which concerns ICE’s “Detention Reengineering Initiative” (DRI), lists as its author Jonathan Florentino, the director of ICE’s Newark, New Jersey Field Office of Enforcement and Removal Operations.
In a note embedded on top of an FAQ question, “What is the average length of stay for the aliens?” Tim Kaiser, the deputy chief of staff for US Citizenship and Immigration Services, asked David Venturella, a former GEO Group executive whom The Washington Post described as an adviser overseeing an ICE division that manages detention center contracts, to “Please confirm” that the average stay for the new mega detention centers would be 60 days.
Venturella replied in a note that remained visible on the published document, “Ideally, I'd like to see a 30-day average for the Mega Center but 60 is fine.”
DHS did not respond to a request for comment about what the three men’s role in the DRI project is, nor did it answer questions about whether Florentino had access to a PDF processor subscription that might have enabled him to scrub metadata and comments from the PDF before sending it to the New Hampshire governor. (The so-called Department of Government Efficiency spent last year slashing the number of software licenses across the federal government.)
Read the full story here: https://www.wired.com/story/metadata-exposes-authors-of-ices-mega-detention-center-plans/
jxj24 | a day ago
Top. Men.
Rattus_NorvegicUwUs | a day ago
Kickbacks, bribes and corruption.
I’d be extremely anxious to work with any of these people. It’s a quick way to get sent to one of their own facilities.
mzincali | 15 hours ago
Add them to the list for the next ‘Nuremberg’ trials. If we survive until then.
ImpulsiveApe07 | 8 hours ago
Grifters gonna grift. Nazis gonna nazi, I guess.
At least their names are public now, so when the US version of the Nuremburg Trials happen, they'll at least have some of the organisers of the concentration camps to hold to account..
Srsly.. This timeline is so fkd, innit?
CrustyTh3Punk | 21 hours ago
With real estate you just play the LLC game to launder money through services with your property. Those LLC’s are in the name of family and everyone wins.
Specialist_Photo_400 | 23 hours ago
not sure what to make of this but i'm intrigued lol
lenny1 | 8 hours ago
Replace 'intrigued' with 'disgusted', and you have my feelings on this topic.