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George Zoley
George Zoley, GEO Group CEO, is a major political fund raiser.
GEO Group (Public No. 43), once known as Wackenhut Corrections, is one of the largest and most influential private prison operators in America, managing 60,000 inmates around the globe. The company recently bought Houston-based rival Cornell Cos. for $685 million. The combined company will manage or own 97 correction and detention facilities and 32 behavioral health facilities and have revenue of approximately $1.5 billion. The prison giant maintains large teams of lobbyists in Washington, D.C., Florida, Texas and other states where it does business. CEO George Zoley is an active campaign fund raiser; a Bush “pioneer” in 2004 for raising more than $100,000, Zoley hosted a fund-raising reception for Senate candidate Charlie Crist at his Fort Lauderdale home in March.

OUT-OF-STATE FIRMS: With a 595,000 -strong workforce across more than 110 countries, G4S Secure Solutions — formerly G4S Wackenhut — is the world’s second-largest private employer. Some 225 of those employees work at the U.K.-based company’s U.S. headquarters, G4S Secure Solutions, which plans to move from Palm Beach Gardens to Jupiter in 2011. Drew Levine heads the division.

» Boca Raton-based ADT Worldwide, a division of Tyco International, provides electronic security systems and services to more than 5 million residential and 2 million commercial customers around the world. Those customers include a majority of the nation’s Fortune 500 companies, all U.S. federal courthouses and more than 70 airports. — Amy Keller

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