Notorious Blackwater founder is lobbying allies in White House for private contractors to assist in mass deportationsNever miss global breaking news. Download our free app to keep up with key stories in real time.Silicon Valley has played a sizable part in the early days of Donald Trump’s new admi nistration, but another familiar face in the Maga-verse is beginning to emerge: businessman Erik Prince, oft-described by his critics as a living “Bond villain”.Prince is the most famous mercenary of the contemporary era and the founder of the now defunct private military company Blackwater. For a time, it was a prolific privateer in the “war on terror”, racking up millions in US government contracts by providing soldiers of fortune to the CIA, Pentagon and beyond. Continue reading... ...read more read less