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The Detroit News
November 4, 2017
But those donations were given by Dick DeVos' father, Richard DeVos Sr., DeVos family spokesman Greg McNeilly said Friday. McNeilly told ...
TownandCountrymag.com
October 27, 2017
Dick DeVos, the secretary's husband, is the son of Amway cofounder Richard DeVos, whose net worth Forbes estimates to be $5.2 billion.
Grand Valley Lanthorn
October 22, 2017
The wife of Amway co-founder Richard DeVos, Helen DeVos was born in Grand Rapids in 1927. She married Richard DeVos in 1953, and ...
Philly.com
October 20, 2017
Helen DeVos with her husband, Orlando Magic owner Richard DeVos, at a Magic game in Orlando, Fla., Wednesday, March 8, 2017.
International Business Times
October 19, 2017
Helen DeVos, a philanthropist and wife of Amway co-founder Richard DeVos, died Wednesday night at the age of 90, said the family. "While we ...
kwbe
October 17, 2017
That said, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos' father-in-law, Richard DeVos, the co-founder of marketing company Amway, is included on the ...
MLive.com
October 17, 2017
His parents, Rich and Helen DeVos, were the lead donors for the Richard DeVos Heart and Lung Transplant Program, which provides the only ...
New York Times
October 6, 2017
... by the tech entrepreneur Rick DeVos, a son of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and grandson of the Amway billionaire Richard DeVos.
Newport Buzz
October 5, 2017
DDeVos NM 52SS For Doug DeVos (left), sailing is a family tradition that started with his father Richard DeVos, the co-founder of Amway. Doug ...
The Philadelphia Tribune
September 28, 2017
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos would likely benefit of elimination of the estate tax: She's the daughter-in-law of Richard DeVos, a co-founder ...
Hoops Habit
September 26, 2017
Current Magic owner Richard DeVos is 91. When he relinquishes control of the team, which you figure will be sooner rather than later, it will fall ...
The Gateway
September 22, 2017
Amway was founded in 1959 in part by Richard DeVos. If that name sounds familiar, it's because he is the father-in-law of current Secretary of ...
The Gateway
September 22, 2017
Amway was founded in 1959 in part by Richard DeVos. If that name sounds familiar, it's because he is the father-in-law of current Secretary of ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
September 19, 2017
The boat doesn't belong to U.S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and her husband, Dick, but to his father, Richard DeVos, and ...
The Detroit News
December 31, 1999
The $5,000 contributed by Dick DeVos, president of the Windquest Group and son of Amway co-founder Richard DeVos, also pales in ...
Newsweek
December 31, 1999
DeVos's net worth is approximately $5 billion, due to her husband Richard DeVos Jr., who is heir to the Amway fortune. “The secretary neither ...
The Gateway
September 23, 2017
Amway was founded in 1959 in part by Richard DeVos. If that name sounds familiar, it's because he is the father-in-law of current Secretary ofÃÂ ...
Loudoun Times-Mirror
September 11, 2017
According to Public Access Project, DeVos' husband Richard DeVos Jr. contributed at least $40,000 to Gillespie's gubernatorial campaign.
Daily Nebraskan
September 4, 2017
Founded by Richard DeVos and Jay Van Andel in 1959, the multi-level marketing company is now ranked the United States' 35th largestÃÂ ...
POLITICO Magazine
January 15, 2017
All four of Richard DeVos' grandparents emigrated from the Netherlands, and today, the family continues to observe the tenets of the ChristianÃÂ ...
The Coastal Journal
December 31, 1999
... or ALEC; and the Coors (beer) and DeVos families—Amway founder Richard DeVos Sr. is Education Secretary Betsy DeVos's father-in-law.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
December 31, 1999
The boat doesn't belong to U.S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and her husband, Dick, but to his father, Richard DeVos, andÃÂ ...
FRANCE 24
March 10, 2017
The Michigan-based firm is a chain of medical facilities whose chairman is Richard DeVos, the husband of Trump's Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
RollingStone.com
March 8, 2017
Betsy Devos at her confirmation hearing for Education Secretary in January 2017. Credit: Brendan Smalowski/AFP/Getty. By Janet Reitman.
Shout Out UK
February 23, 2017
She also married into wealth, becoming the daughter-in-law of billionaire Richard DeVos, the co-founder of Amway. Mrs. DeVos has also a long and heavily religious-based background.
Natural Products INSIDER (blog)
February 13, 2017
Education secretary Betsy DeVos is the daughter-in-law of Amway co-founder Richard DeVos, while Trump's nominee for housing and urban development secretary, the neurosurgeon and former presidential candidate Ben Carson, delivered four speeches atÃÂ ...
My veronanj
February 8, 2017
DeVos, who grew up in a wealthy Michigan family and is the daughter-in-law of billionaire Amway co-founder Richard DeVos, has been a proponent of school choice and voucher programs which, if implemented on the federal level, could drain funding fromÃÂ ...
Wichita Eagle
February 3, 2017
The state's voters overwhelmingly rejected the 2000 proposal, but Betsy and Richard DeVos bounced back, funding successful efforts to lift a cap on the number of charter schools in Michigan and to defeat measures providing for public oversight of charters.
Pitch Weekly (blog)
February 3, 2017
Her father-in-law, Richard DeVos Sr., founded Amway and bought the Orlando Magic basketball team. He is a longtime supporter of right-wing causes, so Betsy fit right in when she married Richard DeVos Jr. Members of the DeVos clan give plenty of moneyÃÂ ...
Huffington Post
February 2, 2017
Richard DeVos Sr. is the founder of the multilevel marketing firm Amway (now Alticor) and owner of the Orlando Magic. A supporter of free market capitalism and a backer of the Christian Right, the elder DeVos was one of a select few to fund the rise of ...
Detroit Free Press
January 31, 2017
The DeVos family is headed up by Richard and Helen DeVos, and the family fortune is derived from Richard DeVos' and Jay Van Andel's creation of direct-sales giant Amway.
GetReligion (blog)
January 31, 2017
All four of Richard DeVos' grandparents emigrated from the Netherlands, and today, the family continues to observe the tenets of the Christian Reformed Church, a Calvinist denomination.
Steven Doak (blog)
January 30, 2017
Richard DeVos' urgent desire for the franchise to be successful before he passes (he's 90) meant that the team would try to accelerate the rebuilding process.
Awoko
January 30, 2017
Daughter-in-law of Amway cofounder Richard DeVos, she's married to Richard Jr., the eldest of DeVos's four children; Forbes estimates that the couple gets about one-fourth of the family fortune.
New York Times
January 28, 2017
Mr. Secchia said that after he signed the brief, he called Ms. DeVos's father-in-law, Richard DeVos, the billionaire co-founder of Amway, as a courtesy.
Orlando Sentinel
January 27, 2017
The 59-year-old grandmother and Michigan native is the wife of Amway co-founder Richard DeVos' eldest son, but came to the marriage with her own family's fortune, from her father's successful Michigan auto parts company.
Columbus Dispatch
January 25, 2017
Betsy DeVos gave $2,700 to Kasich's presidential bid while her husband, Richard DeVos Jr., father-in-law Richard DeVos Sr. and mother-in-law Helen DeVos also each gave $2,700. Mrs. DeVos gave $5,000 to the Kasich gubernatorial campaign in 2010,ÃÂ ...
Inside Philanthropy
January 24, 2017
Meanwhile, her father-in-law, Amway founder Richard DeVos Sr., was an early funder of such groups in the 1970s. DeVos giving is socially conservative first, with economic libertarianism as an important side note.
The Inquisitr
January 23, 2017
As for DeVos, Senator Warren pointed to her lack of perspective of the average American family trying to put their children through the higher education system; DeVos is the daughter-in-law of billionaire Amway founder Richard DeVos. Warren's line ofÃÂ ...
Morochos.net
January 23, 2017
Her husband, Dick DeVos, is the son of billionaire Richard DeVos, the co-founder of Amway Corp. Both of these acts are federal civil rights laws, but DeVos didn't seem familiar with IDEA or how it applies to education.
Cortez Journal
January 23, 2017
Richard DeVos, at the conservative Heritage Foundation, spelled out a state-by-state strategy to expand vouchers and school choice by rewarding and punishing legislators.
The Inquisitr
January 22, 2017
As for DeVos, Senator Warren pointed to her lack of perspective of the average American family trying to put their children through the higher education system; DeVos is the daughter-in-law of billionaire Amway founder Richard DeVos. Warren's line ofÃÂ ...
NRC
January 20, 2017
Christelijk onderwijs. Pikant is dat de nieuwe minister Betsy DeVos getrouwd is met de miljardair Richard DeVos, kleinzoon van arme Nederlandse immigranten, zoon van miljardair Richard DeVos senior. Senior is een pure calvinist die rijk werd aan deÃÂ ...
Centre Daily Times
January 20, 2017
Doug DeVos, president of the Amway marketing company, skippered Quantum Racing to a victory Friday on the final day at the Key West Race Week regatta.
Joplin Globe
January 20, 2017
She is the daughter-in-law of Amway founder Richard DeVos and has advocated for school vouchers and charter schools primarily in her home state of Michigan.
New York Times
January 20, 2017
Ms. DeVos and her husband, Richard DeVos Jr., are major financial backers of Neurocore, a Michigan company that operates drug-free "brain performance centers" that claim to have worked with 10,000 children and adults to overcome problems withÃÂ ...
Salt Lake Tribune
January 20, 2017
Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross is the nominee to lead the Commerce Department, while Education Department nominee Betsy DeVos is the daughter-in-law of Richard DeVos, the cofounder of Amway. Trump's pick for Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, retiredÃÂ ...
Jacobin magazine
January 20, 2017
She is the daughter of Edgar Prince, founder of the Prince Corporation; sister of Erik Prince, founder of the private military contractor formerly known as Blackwater; and daughter-in-law of Richard DeVos, the billionaire who co-founded the Amway ...
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
January 18, 2017
DeVos' remarks came amid an acrimonious three-and-a-half hour hearing in which Democrats lamented the lack of adequate time to question DeVos - a billionaire and wife of Richard Devos, an heir to the Amway fortune - about her extensive businessÃÂ ...
The Intercept
January 18, 2017
DeVos is married to Richard DeVos, the heir to the Amway Corporation fortune. She is also the sister of Blackwater founder Erik Prince, who is secretly advising the Trump team on intelligence matters, as The Intercept reported Tuesday.
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