Photo Illustration by Eric Faison/The Daily Beast/Getty Images A Canadian billionaire who was just given $314 million of taxpayers’ money to build and operate a new ICE mega-jail was once accused of making death threats against his employees and their families if they told anyone about his company’s alleged financial troubles. Stephan Crétier, 62, who has an estimated net worth of between $2.6 billion and $4.6 billion, runs GardaWorld Federal Services, which was awarded a massive contract to manage a forthcoming migrant detention warehouse in Arizona by the Trump administration. The Dubai-based businessman and his wife, a French model-turned-actress, own two multimillion-dollar vineyards in California’s Napa Valley, along with a beachfront mega-mansion in Donald Trump’s adopted hometown of Palm Beach, Florida. The GardaWorld security company, which was described as a “private CIA” by Bloomberg, is headquartered in Montreal with subsidiaries in the U.S. It already provides guard services at Florida’s notorious “Alligator Alcatraz” complex—which has faced intense backlash over inhumane conditions —but has no experience of managing detention facilities. Read more at The Daily Beast.