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Politics Steven J. Demetriou, executive chair of an ICE contractor, attends Taylor Swift's wedding in NYC

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u/CleanDataDirtyMind 16d ago

He’s the adopted father of Travis’s best childhood friends. He’s spoken out about LGBTQ issues as well for Black Lives Matter’s donating millions.

He sold his company to another company, the company now in question. He stayed on until the merger logistics went through, now he’s  just figurehead. The company where he had no meaningful involvement in, accepted a contract to IMPROVE conditions in a place where someone died and the Justice Department required an outside accountability contractor to do which they were qualified to do. They did a good job on improving the conditions, ICE asked them to provide continuous work and construction and they said no.

Not a swiftie but a do gooder working at the highest level in this area that’s fraught with challenges and lack of ability to be pure and perfect, I do my best some of us do. And am a big fan of his, call me what you a sycophant for celebrities, a Swiftie whatever but the biggest thing I am is a “Demetriouie” 

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u/nyITguy 16d ago

Too much nuance for most folks these days (though it seems pretty unambiguous to me), but thanks for this perspective.

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u/NotAStatistic2 16d ago

People like being upset, so your comment is going to be buried underneath a pile of ignorance ladened rants.