All posts tagged "Rick Jackson"

A billionaire running for Georgia governor with President Donald Trump's endorsement and a job-creating platform saw his companies pay millions to settle worker complaints.

According to a Monday report by The Daily Beast, Rick Jackson has built his campaign around his business track record, but court records show at least two of his healthcare firms agreed to class-action settlements. Workers accused his firms of failing to pay wages properly.

One subsidiary, Jackson Nurse Professionals, settled a 2017 class action in 2022 for close to $2 million to resolve claims from roughly 300 nursing staff who said the travel staffing company shorted them on overtime, bonuses, and wages owed when they left. A separate company, Avante Healthcare Professionals, agreed to a $3 million settlement covering more than 5,000 current and former international workers, according to The Daily Beast....

A MAGA billionaire gubernatorial candidate in Georgia was under fire on Wednesday after a recording surfaced with him reportedly "agreeing that women should have to 'prove' they were raped in order to qualify for an abortion," according to a report from The Daily Beast.

Rick Jackson defeated Burt Jones — a candidate backed by President Donald Trump — in the GOP primary on Tuesday night. The shock win has rocked the Republican Party as the new audio was revealed the next day.

The recording was reviewed by The Beast and apparently made at a campaign event before Jackson's victory. In it, the healthcare executive talks about "abortion with a voter who objected to exceptions for pregnancies resulting from rape."...