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GEO Group is also a family affair.

David Meehan, divisional vice president of business development for GEO Care, is Executive Chairman George Zoley’s son-in-law, drawing a paycheck last year of $599,667.

Zoley’s son, Chris Zoley, is the company’s director of business development.
December 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Another board member, Lindsay Koren, was an attorney adviser to the chief immigration judge at the DOJ.

And GEO Group’s senior vice president of contract administration, Daniel Ragsdale, worked at ICE between 1996 and 2017, disclosures show, most recently as its deputy director.
December 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Julie Myers Wood, a GEO board director since 2014, was the head of ICE between January 2006 and November 2008.

She is now the CEO of Guidepost Solutions, which has a consulting agreement with the GEO Group electronic monitoring device subsidiary, BI.
December 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Homan himself also earned an undisclosed amount in fees from GEO Group for consulting before joining the admin.

Then there is former ICE acting director Matthew Albence, who is GEO Group’s senior vice president of client relations.

Plus, at least 6 other former ICE officials in GEO's leadership
December 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Tom Homan appointed “an old friend and former colleague,” David Venturella, to help him run Trump and Miller’s mass deportations.

Venturella had just spent 12 yrs at GEO Group, drawing compensation of more than $6 million to run immigrant gulags.
December 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Some of the people benefitting the most from Trump's terror campaign windfall are previous members of ICE.

As The Washington Post reported, the door between GEO Group and the federal prison system is revolving apace.
The former private prison exec behind ICE’s immigrant detention surge
David Venturella, a veteran of private prison firm Geo Group, joined the Trump administration to help oversee an expansion of the immigrant detention system that’s benefiting his former employer.
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December 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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GEO Group also is the only provider of electronic monitoring devices for ICE, and it has stocked up on “several tens of thousands” of GPS tracking devices.

But it's the ones who are raking it in that are the real kicker.
December 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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December 11, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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4/ During a visit to Samaritan in 2020, ProPublica’s @gingerthompson.bsky.social met a Phoebe groundskeeper who said he’d recently gone to the ER. After a 10-hour wait and a 10-minute exam, he said he walked out with a prescription for antibiotics and a list of dentists.

“I threw ’em away.”
December 11, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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3/ The uninsured rate in Albany is twice the national average, even though Phoebe is the region’s largest employer.

Many of its employees in Albany work in lower-paying jobs like phlebotomists, orderlies and cooks.
December 11, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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2/ “People were dying in our backyard,” said Pastor Daniel Simmons of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, whose members helped establish the Samaritan clinic in 2007.

“It wasn’t because they didn’t want to go to the doctor. It was because they couldn’t afford it.”
Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 4: The Last Safety Net
As a community hospital, Phoebe’s mission is to care for people no matter their ability to pay. But in a town where the uninsured rate is twice the national average, even some Phoebe employees are una...
projects.propublica.org
December 11, 2025 at 3:12 AM