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Jeremy Scahill and other Intercept journalists have reported on Prince for years, tracing his activities from the days of Blackwater’s deadly operations in Iraq to his more recent turn as a Trump apparatchik.
He sold the company formerly known as Blackwater in 2010, but we’ve continued to report on his activities as he’s pursued a variety of new ventures in the murky world of international private security.
Now he claims that an article examining efforts to sell military services to a sanctioned Russian company defamed him.
Just months ago, Prince told a reporter from another outlet that “if you publish private information about me, I’ll be sure to return the favor.”
