Nathan Albers previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to a scheme to hire and conceal undocumented workers.
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July 25, 2025 · View in browser

In today’s newsletter: A migrant camp contracting mogul’s former company employed undocumented workers; impact from our reporting on “digital escorts”; the evidence lost in Idaho’s death investigations; and more from our newsroom. 

His Former Company Got Caught Employing Undocumented Workers. Now He’s Profiting Off an Immigrant Detention Camp.

Disaster Management Group is one contractor behind the nation’s largest detention camp, to be built at Fort Bliss. It’s run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to a scheme to hire and conceal undocumented workers.

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Microsoft Says It’s Stopped Using China-Based Engineers for DOD Computer Systems

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After a ProPublica investigation revealed how Microsoft’s “digital escort” tech support service could expose sensitive government data to cyberattacks, the company says China-based engineers will no longer provide assistance on Department of Defense cloud services.

Microsoft’s announcement came hours after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said his agency would look into the company’s use of foreign-based engineers to help maintain the highly sensitive cloud systems.

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When Clayton Strong drove his wife’s body to a hospital in Idaho, the coroner took his word for it that her death was natural.

Five years later, Strong’s next wife turned up dead too: shot in the chest in Texas.

The failure to reform the coroner’s system and death investigations in Idaho has raised alarms for more than 70 years. Asked whether murderers have escaped prosecution in Idaho’s system, one coroner told ProPublica: “My humble opinion? Yes.”

Strong had a history of domestic unrest in both marriages. The women’s families say a more thorough investigation of Betty Strong’s death in Idaho might have saved the life of his next wife, Shirley Weatherley, in Texas.

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