WHO ARE THE OTHER BUSH MEN?

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QUOTE OF THE MONTH: "If you don't think it's a gamble to put a man in the White House who believes we should have guns in church, who thinks the Taliban is a rock band, who was such a failure as a businessman that his company was nicknamed "El-Busto," who wants to turn our Social Security system into a Wall Street boiler room, who can't name a single thing he disagrees with Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson on, who smeared a bona fide hero named John McCain, and whose principle policy proposal is to give America's surplus to the idle rich in the form of a $1.3 trillion tax cut, you're either nuts or a Republican."

... Equal Time co-host Paul Begala, shooting the bull.

WHO ARE THE OTHER BUSH MEN?

The following is a summarization of information from the news media and published articles about the Bush family:

George W.'s uncle, PRESCOTT S. BUSH JR. a former vestryman at a Greenwich, Connecticut Church,  apparently inherited his father's predilection for acquiring  unusual sources of income.  

Prescott specialized in Pacific Rim business development.   He worked on an $18-million project to build the Shanghai Country Club, a resort complex with tennis courts and golf course.  His partners in the enterprise were a Chinese government organization and Aoki Corporation, a Japanese construction company

For his role in planning the undertaking, Bush was to receive 25% of the profits with no initial outlay, zero risk and an absence of operating costs. ( Hmmmmmm, isn't this suspicious?  Have YOU ever been offered a deal like this?)

Prescott played the middleman in a $5-million deal in which 40% of a company in which he held considerable stock and was a senior adviser was sold to West Tsusho, a Tokyo based investment firm, which gave Bush a quarter million dollars for arranging the deal.   In some countries, this payment would have been considered a kickback.

Later, Japanese police identified West Tsusho as a Yakuza dominated company. Yakuza is a Japanese Crime syndicate, something like our mafia.  Ties were also disclosed between Aoki Corporation, Bush's country-club partners, and this same Japanese crime syndicate.

Although Prescott Bush represented himself as an expert on Asian business affairs, he responded to the Yakuza scandal as if he didn't know that Japan had a Mafia. Bush maintained that he was totally unaware that his Mafia deals were originating from some of the world's most ruthless, virulent mobsters.

A logical question arises: Why didn't he look a little closer? One logical answer could be that: "Dirty money looks pretty good from a distance."  "It doesn't hurt that my brother is the President of the United States," said Prescott S. Bush.

When you look closely at the Bush Men and their history, it would appear that any moral fiber they might have, would not hold up their pants.  There have been reports of sex, drugs and dirty money that surfaced in connection with some of the Bush Son's and an accusation of sexual misconduct against former president George Bush.  But, to be fair, nothing has been proved about the ex president........as of now.

GEORGE BUSH SR.  Soon after Dubyahs father, George Bush Sr., gave a speech to The Knights of Columbus, during the campaign of 1992, he was asked by a reporter from CNN about a rumor that he had had an affair with his appointments aide, Jennifer Fitzgerald, seven years earlier, when he was Vice President.

Then President Bush was visibly upset and denied the rumor. He claimed to be "outraged" and "disappointed" by the "sleazy question."   But he also said he expected just such an inquiry into the rumor "...in this kind of screwy climate that we're in." 

Later, Bush sidetracked an attempt by Stone Phillips of NBC when Stone tried to bring up the subject of marital infidelity: Bush said, "After years in public service and a very happy marriage, I am hit by a wave of questions like yours sitting here today. And I should think you'd be a little ashamed of yourself because...it just drags down the political process."
The New York Post based its story on a book, "The Powerhouse", which revealed what had long been considered an open secret in Washington: Bush's alleged sexual relationship with his appointments aide, Jennifer Fitzgerald.

Susan B. Trento, author of The Powerhouse and a former staff member for a Republican congressman, wrote that conservatives in the late '80s believed that, "if Bush were going to become a viable Presidential candidate in 1988, certain problems had to be addressed.

"First, Bush's longtime companion and powerful staff member, Jennifer Fitzgerald, had to be removed from the White House and Bush's sexual indiscretions had to be covered up, if he ever hoped to be President."

Fitzgerald, had become the deputy chief of protocol for the State Department, during the 1992 campaign.  Author Trento said that Louis Fields, a former ambassador to disarmament talks in Geneva, Switzerland, had told her in a 1984 interview that "he had made arrangements for George Bush and Jennifer Fitzgerald to use a guest house in Geneva while they visited."

Trento quotes Fields as saying, "It became clear to me that the Vice President and Ms. Fitzgerald were romantically involved and this was not a business visit."

George's three son's, Neil, George Jr. and Jeb, seems to have inherited their father's gift for creative denial.  

NEIL MALLON BUSH, Dubyah's brother and the former Chief Executive's third son, is known in the Bush family circle as Mr. Perfect, and his record of questionable financial dealings is said to be flawless. "The fact that he's the President's son probably hasn't simplified his life," explained George Bush Sr. in an attempt to minimize his third son's inability to distinguish right from wrong.

"I did nothing wrong," insisted Neil Bush in response to the investigations of his self-described "incredibly sweet" deals as a director of the gutted Silverado Banking, Savings & Loan Association.  The charges against him, Neil asserted, were "insignificant." 

Actually, taxpayers had to shell out a significant $1 billion to bail out Silverado.

Neil received a $100,000 "loan" from high-roller Ken Good, of Good International, with no obligation to pay any of the money back.  Good was a big-fish shareholder in JNB Explorations, Neil Bush's oil-exploration company, the one that "successfully" drilled 30 wells without ever striking oil.  Neil forgot to mention that the money was to be used in joint venture with his own JNB.  He later petitioned fellow Silverado board members to extend to Good International a $900,000 line of credit.  Good reneged on $32 million in loans from Silverado, while Neil Bush kept quiet about Good's promise of $3 million for JNB.   Good subsequently raised Bush's JNB salary from $75,000 to $125,000 and granted him a $22,500 bonus.  These dealings presented no conflict of interest?  At least not to the interests of Neil Bush.

Neil approved $106 million in Silverado loans to another heavy JNB investor, Bill Walters.   Neil never formally disclosed his relationship with Walters, who defaulted on the entire outlay.

Neil, stung, after being told that he must agree not to violate thrift regulations in the future, is reported to have said,  "I'm not going to be bullied by an overzealous agency of the United States government."

"It's inconceivable Neil Bush did anything wrong," proclaimed Representative Jim Leach (R-Iowa), a member of the House Banking Committee.( Hmmmmmmmm!!!) 

FLASH!!!

HOUSTON, Texas 11/26/2003 (Reuters) -- Neil Bush, younger brother of President Bush, detailed lucrative business deals and admitted to engaging in sex romps with women in Asia in a deposition taken in March as part of his divorce from now ex-wife Sharon Bush.

According to legal documents disclosed Tuesday, Sharon Bush's lawyers questioned Neil Bush closely about the deals, especially a contract with Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., a firm backed by Jiang Mianheng, the son of former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, that would pay him $2 million in stock over five years.

Marshall Davis Brown, lawyer for Sharon Bush, expressed bewilderment at why Grace would want Bush and at such a high price since he knew little about the semiconductor business.

"You have absolutely no educational background in semiconductors do you?" asked Brown.

"That's correct," Bush, 48, responded in the March 4 deposition, a transcript of which was read by Reuters after the Houston Chronicle first reported on the documents.

"And you have absolutely over the last 10, 15, 20 years not a lot of demonstrable business experience that would bring about a company investing $2 million in you?"

"I personally would object to the assumption that they're investing $2 million in me," said Bush, who went on to explain that he knew a lot about business and had been working in Asia for years.

Bush, who inked the Grace deal in August 2002, said he had not yet received any stock from the company, which built a plant in Shanghai that began production in September. He is supposed to consult for the company and be on the board of directors, he said.

He said he joined the Grace board at the request of Winston Wong, a co-founder of the company and the son of Wang Yung-ching, the chairman of Taiwan's largest business group, Formosa Plastics Corp. Bush never mentioned Jiang Mianheng in the deposition.

Wong, he said, also is an investor in his latest venture, Ignite!, an Austin, Texas, educational software firm.

A representative at Grace's U.S. office in California had no comment on the Bush contract.

Brown questioned Bush about numerous other business ventures that paid him well to be a consultant and fundraiser, and, in at least one case, for little work.

Bush said he was co-chairman of Crest Investment Corporation, but worked only an average of three to four hours a week. For that, he received $15,000 every three months.

Bush said he provided Crest "miscellaneous consulting services."

"Such as?" asked Brown.

"Such as answering phone calls when Jamail Daniel, the other co-chairman, called and asked for advice," Bush said.

Bush did not return calls to his Ignite! office and his divorce lawyer, Rick Flowers, was not available for comment.

Bush is the third of five children in the family of former President Bush and wife Barbara.

He was involved in a business controversy in the late 1980s when he was director of Denver, Colorado-based Silverado Savings & Loan, which collapsed at a cost to taxpayers of $1 billion.

He denied any wrongdoing, but was sanctioned by the federal government for his part in the failure.

The Bush divorce, completed in April after 23 years of marriage, was prompted in part by Bush's relationship with another woman. He admitted in the deposition that he previously had sex with several other women while on trips to Thailand and Hong Kong at least five years ago.

The women, he said, simply knocked on the door of his hotel room, entered and had sex with him. He said he did not know if they were prostitutes because they never asked for money and he did not pay them.

"Mr. Bush, you have to admit it's a pretty remarkable thing for a man just to go to a hotel room door and open it and have a woman standing there and have sex with her," Brown said.

"It was very unusual," Bush said.

Another Bush brother,  JOHN ELLIS "JEB" BUSH is now the Republican Governor of Florida, but his future was not always free from doubt. A Secret Service agent assigned to the Bush family detail told a reporter for Mother Jones, "We can't keep these [Bush] kids from associating with someone they want to be with.  All we can do after warning them is to sweep these guys with metal detectors when they come around."

In 1986, Camilo Padreda hired Jeb as the leasing agent for a commercial-office building that Padreda had built with $1.4 million in federal loans from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Four years prior to his association with Jeb Bush, Padreda had been accused of looting a savings-and-loan in McAllen, Texas. A federal indictment charged Padreda and his then-partner of embezzling more than $500,000 from the thrift. Padreda's partner was also charged with drug-smuggling, money-laundering and gunrunning.

These taints on Padreda's character did not stop Jeb Bush from enthusiastically pursuing tenants for Padreda's HUD-financed office building. In 1989, Padreda pleaded guilty to defrauding HUD of millions of dollars during the 1980s.

Miguel Recarey provided Jeb Bush's next brush with the underworld. Recarey, who reputedly carried a pistol under his jacket and kept assault rifles at his Miami estate, hired Jeb as a "real-estate consultant."  Bush would never close a single real-estate deal. His real value to Recarey was to lobby U.S. Department of Health and Human Services officials for a special exemption for a Recarey health-maintenance organization. Recarey received the waiver, which allowed his HMO to carry an unusually large proportion of Medicare patients. At its height in 1986, Recarey's HMO collected more than $30 million a month in Medicare payments; in all the company received $1 billion from Medicare.

A special agent of H&HS determined that Recarey had been defrauding Medicare through overcharging, false invoicing and embezzlement. Recarey exiled himself to Venezuela, and Jeb Bush went on to become Governor of the Sunshine State.

During the 1998 election-campaign season a number of people provided interesting information about gubernatorial candidate Jeb Bush.  They told of a woman who had been having an adulterous affair with Jeb.  She supposedly possessed and had displayed photographs of Jeb in compromising sexual positions and engaged in consumption of narcotics.  There are rumors ( unsubstantiated) that these items have been acquired by a nationally known organization which will release them to the news media in good time.  Are you getting tired of the Bush Sleaze factor yet?


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