Chuck Darwin<p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Brian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brian</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Evans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Evans</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/George" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>George</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Zoley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zoley</span></a>, the two top executives at Geo Group, the <br>💥private prison company💥, <br>made contributions directly to Trump’s campaign, <br>to his super PAC and to other political groups that support him, <br>and have said they ⚠️ expect Mr. Trump’s re-election to drive up demand for empty beds <br>at detention centers the company runs for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.</p><p>Mr. Zoley has already profited handsomely from Mr. Trump’s re-election.</p><p>This summer, as the election was approaching, he spent over $3 million to buy up large chunks of the company’s own stock, <br>or a total of 250,000 shares, federal filings show. <br>The average price he paid for that stock: <br>$12.28. <br>As of Friday, that stock was trading at $26.60, <br>as Geo Group saw the largest surge in its stock price since 2016, <br>after Mr. Trump was elected to his first term. <br>The bounce this month alone would generate a $3.6 million profit for Mr. Zoley, if sold at the new price.</p><p>The executives told Wall Street analysts during a recent earnings call that 🆘Trump’s election could help Geo Group fill as many as 18,000 empty beds at its facilities, <br>which would generate as much as $400 million in annual business.</p><p>“This is to us an unprecedented opportunity to assist the federal government and the incoming Trump administration toward achieving a much more aggressive immigration policy,” Mr. Evans told the Wall Street analysts.<br><a href="https://c.im/tags/immigrant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigrant</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/detention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>detention</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deportation</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/privateprisons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privateprisons</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/us/politics/trump-presidency-billionaires.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2024/11/17/us/poli</span><span class="invisible">tics/trump-presidency-billionaires.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare</span></a></p>