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A private security firm used by several Fortune 500 companies says its phones were “ringing off the hook” with potential clients following the execution of UnitedHealth Group CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan — as top business leaders fear for their lives.
Allied Universal, which provides private security services to 80% of Fortune 500 companies was flooded with frantic inquiries after the shocking Midtown assassination on Wednesday, Glen Kucera, who runs Allied’s enhanced protection services, told the New York Times.
Kucera said the company offers a wide range of security services, including stationing guards outside offices and chauffeuring executives — but it comes at a high cost.
A company will have to dish out about $250,000 a year in order to protect a chief executive full time, he said.
The vast increase in calls to the firm comes as dozens of Fortune 1000 chiefs will descend on Manhattan to attend a summit at Midtown’s Ziegfeld on 54th Street, not far from where Thompson was gunned down by a masked gunman outside the Hilton hotel.
