DBT Online Inc., formerly known as Database Technologies, is a
data mining company founded by Roy Brubaker and
Hank Asher
Hank Asher (May 9, 1951 – January 11, 2013) in 1992 in
Las Vegas
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,
Nevada
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, USA. It is today a subsidiary of US data aggregation group,
ChoicePoint.
DBT Online was formed as a public holding company by the merger of Database Technologies and Patlex in 1996.
DBT Online bought Asher out for US$147 million in 1999. This followed the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration suspending their contracts with DBT Online following revelations that Asher had been involved but not charged with drug dealing in the Bahamas. The agencies were also concerned that DBT Online could potentially monitor targets of investigations.
State contracts with company founded by man linked to smuggling
''Naples Daily News'', 3 August 2003, loaded 2 April 2007
Asher blamed the ouster on fellow company director Kenneth Langone.
In early 2000 soon after Hank Asher's departure, DBT won a $4 million contract with the state of Florida that would mire it in the Florida Election Controversy in the 2000 US presidential elections.
DBT competes with Seisint, a company founded by Asher on his departure from Database Technologies. Seisint was sold to LexisNexis
LexisNexis is a part of the RELX corporation that sells data analytics products and various databases that are accessed through online portals, including portals for computer-assisted legal research (CALR), newspaper search, and consumer informa ...
in 2004 for $775 million.
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When maverick cyber-pioneer Hank Asher invented MATRIX
''Vanity Fair'', December 2004, loaded 14 March 2007
''Naples Daily News'', 3 August 2003, loaded 2 April 200
Companies based in Spring Valley, Nevada