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The Bush Crime Family Tree |
| George Walker, GW's
great-grandfather, set up the takeover of the Hamburg-America Line,
a cover for I.G. Farben's Nazi espionage unit in the United States. In
Germany, I.G. Farben was most famous for putting the gas in gas chambers;
it was the producer of Zyklon B and other gasses used on victims of the
Holocaust. The Bush family was not unaware of the nature of their
investment partners. They hired Allen Dulles, the future head of the CIA,
to hide the funds they were making from Nazi investments and the funds
they were sending to Nazi Germany, rather than divest. It was only in
1942, when the government seized Union Banking Company assets under the
Trading With The Enemy Act, that George Walker and Prescott Bush stopped
pumping money into Hitler's regime. (1) |
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Prescott Bush, the
president's grandfather. According to classified documents from Dutch
intelligence and US government archives, President George W. Bush's
grandfather, Prescott Bush made considerable profits off Auschwitz slave
labor. In fact, President Bush himself is an heir to these profits from
the holocaust which were placed in a blind trust in 1980 by his father,
former president George Herbert Walker Bush. (2) On the 20th of October,
the government commenced action against the company under the trading with
the enemy act. (3) After the seizures in late 1942 of five U.S.
enterprises he managed on behalf of Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen
failed to divest himself of more than a dozen "enemy national"
relationships that continued until as late as 1951, newly-discovered U.S.
government documents reveal. (4) In 1952, Prescott Bush was elected
to the U.S. Senate, with no press accounts about his well-concealed Nazi
past.(5)
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| George Herbert Walker Bush,
the presidents father. Bush, as director of the CIA, had funneled enormous
amounts of cash to drug runners including Manuel Noriega and helped in the
destabilization of Argentina. Bush utilized his own connections to help
fund drug runners from Laos to Panama. Most shocking was the so-called
"cocaine coup" in Bolivia in June 1980, masterminded by fugitive
Nazi Klaus Barbie, "The Butcher Of Lyons." Barbie, who had been
previously secreted in Latin America by the CIA, began working closely
with the Argentines and used drug money to finance a neo-Nazi cabal, one
that succeeded in overthrowing the government. The troops swept through
the capital wearing Nazi armbands, according to former DEA agent Mike
Levine. George H.W. Bush later facilitated the Iran-contra affair,
employing many of the same methods: secretly selling Central American
cocaine in America and weapons to Iran while using the profits to fund the
contras and to overthrow democratically elected socialists in Central
America.(6) as the head of the CIA and later as Vice
President, toppled democratically elected regimes in South and Central
America and began propping
up a dictator by the name of Saddam
Hussein in Iraq. Although forbidden by congress to do so, he
continued to sell chemical and biological weapons to Saddam even
after he used them on villages of innocent civilians. A decade later The
United States had to go to war against him and the Bush family again,
made millions from it. |
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| Jonathan J. Bush, the
Presidents uncle. Jonathan Bush's "Pioneer Profile" in
"George W. Bush's $100,000 Club" cites him as the
"head" of the Riggs Investment Management Co.; "Bush’s
uncle Jonathan ... founded its subsidiary, J. Bush & Co., of which he
is chair. He also is an ex-chair of the New York Republican State Finance
Committee. Bush credits the investors sent his way by this banker uncle as
a key to his 'success' in the Texas oil industry in the early
‘80s." (17)
Jonathan J. Bush, is a top executive at Riggs
Bank, which this week agreed to pay a record $25 million in civil fines
for violations of law intended to thwart money laundering. Jonathan Bush,
who is a major fundraiser for his nephew, was appointed in 2000 to run
Riggs Investment Management Co. His association with Riggs began when he
headed J. Bush & Co., a New Haven, Conn., company he created in 1970
and built to offer advice on money management. (18)
According to the 5/14/04 New York Times, Federal
regulators fined the Riggs National Corporation, the parent company of
Riggs Bank, $25 million yesterday for "failing to report suspicious
activity, the largest penalty ever assessed against a domestic bank in
connection with money laundering. The fine stems from Riggs's failure over
at least the last two years to actively monitor suspect financial
transfers through Saudi Arabian accounts held by the bank." The
5/14/04 Wall Street Journal reported that of particular concern, Riggs
failed to monitor "tens of millions of dollars in cash withdrawals
from accounts related to the Saudi Arabian embassy," including
"suspicious incidents involving dozens of sequentially numbered
cashier's checks and international drafts written by Saudi officials,
including Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar bin Sultan." According to
the 4/18/04 Washington Post, Saudi Prince Bandar's wife, Princess Haifa
al-Faisal, "may have used a Riggs account to donate money to a
charity that then gave some of it to the Sept. 11 terrorists."
(...)
According to the nonprofit Texans for Public Justice, Jonathan Bush is the
President and CEO of Riggs Investment Management - a major arm of Riggs
Bank. He is also the uncle of President George W. Bush. The President
"credits the investors sent his way by this banker uncle as a key to
his 'success' in the Texas oil industry in the early '80s." According
to Public Citizen, the uncle Jonathan was a Bush Pioneer, having raised
more than $100,000 for his nephew in 2000.(19) |
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| Neil Bush, the
president's brother. Central player of the 1980'ssavings and loan scandal,
he ran a savings and loan into the ground while shoveling millions of its
taxpayer-backed dollars into the pockets of two deadbeat partners. Neil
served as a director of Silverado Banking, Savings and Loan in Denver,
Colorado, from 1985 until 1988. During that time, the now-dead thrift made
over $200 million in loans to Neil's two partners in JNB Exploration,
Neil's abysmally unsuccessful oil company. Federal regulators determined
that, while Silverado was pumping loans to Neil's two associates, Neil was
completely dependent on the two men for his income. The failure of
Silverado -- its closure delayed until after the 1988 election -- cost
taxpayers about $1 billion. After Silverado failed, Neil started a new oil
company, Apex Energy. This time, his money came from a $2.35 million loan
through a Small Business Administration program. When news of this reached
the press in March 1991, the SBA discovered that the companies through
which the loan was approved were technically insolvent, and it gave them
up to thirty months to "self-liquidate." This meant that Apex
would have to repay its SBA-guaranteed loans. Neil took this as his cue to
move on, and he left Apex -- and its debts -- for others to worry about.
(7) update: Neil
Bush made $171,370 in one day. The fact that he was a former consultant to
the company whose stock he dumped is just a coincidence |
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| Marvin Bush, the
president's brother was on the
board of directors of a company providing electronic security for the
World Trade Center, Dulles International Airport and United Airlines,
according to public records. The company was backed by an investment firm,
the Kuwait-American Corp., also linked for years to the Bush family. The
security company, formerly named Securacom and now named Stratesec, is in
Sterling, Va.. Its CEO, Barry McDaniel, said the company had a
``completion contract" to handle some of the security at the World
Trade Center ``up to the day the buildings fell down." The suite in
which Marvin Bush was annually re-elected, according to public records, is
located in the Watergate in space leased to the Saudi government. The
company now holds shareholder meetings in space leased by the Kuwaiti
government there.(8) (9) more |
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| Jeb Bush, the president's
brother. After graduating from The University of Texas, Jeb Bush served a short
apprenticeship at the Venezuelan branch of Texas Commerce Bank in Caracas
before settling in Miami, in 1980, to work on his father's unsuccessful
primary bid against Ronald Reagan. Shortly after arriving in Miami, Jeb
was hired by Cuban-American developer Armando Codina to work at his Miami
development company as an agent leasing office space. A couple of years
later, Jeb and Codina became business partners, and in 1985 they purchased
an office building in a deal partly financed by a savings and loan that
later failed.The $4.56 million loan, from Broward Federal Savings in
Sunrise, Florida, was granted in such a way that neither Codina's nor
Bush's name appeared on the loan papers as the borrowers. A third man, J.
Edward Houston, borrowed the $4.56 million from Broward and then re-lent
it to the Bush partnership. When federal regulators closed Broward Savings
in 1988, they found the loan, which had been secured by the Bush
partnership, in default. As Jeb's father was finishing his second term as
vice-president and running for the presidency, federal regulators had two
options: to get Jeb Bush and his partner to repay the loan, or to
foreclose on their office building. But regulators came up with a third
solution. After reappraising the building, regulators decided it wasn't
worth as much as was owed for it. The regulators reduced the amount owed
by Bush and his partner from $4.56 million to just $500,000. The pair paid
that amount and were allowed to keep their office building. Taxpayers
picked up the tab for the unpaid $4 million. (10)
He
also rigged an election that you may have heard about. Thousands of
eligible voters were disallowed the right to vote in predominantly
democratic regions. Between May 1999 and Election Day 2000, two Florida
secretaries of state - Sandra Mortham and Katherine Harris, both protégées
of Governor Jeb Bush- ordered 57,700 "ex-felons," who are
prohibited from voting by state law, to be removed from voter rolls. (In
the thirty-five states where former felons can vote, roughly 90 percent
vote Democratic.) A company now owned by ChoicePoint of Atlanta, was paid
$4.3 million for its work, replacing a firm that charged $5,700 per year
for the same service.Two of these "scrub lists," as officials
called them, were distributed to counties in the months before the
election with orders to remove the voters named. Together the lists
comprised nearly 1 percent of Florida?s electorate and nearly 3 percent of
its African-American voters. Neither DBT nor the state conducted any
further research to verify the matches. DBT, which frequently is hired by
the F.B.I. to conduct manhunts, originally proposed using address
histories and financial records to confirm the names, but the state
declined the cross-checks. (11) |
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| George W. Bush, second
appointed president of the United States.
• 1979-83: Fifty Bush family investors
and friends, led by uncle Jonathan, a New York Republican Party official
and an investment manager, fork over $4.7 million to set up young Bush in
a company called Arbusto. It's a flop, and in 1982 gets a new name: Bush
Exploration.
• 1984: Spectrum 7 Corporation, an
Ohio oil exploration outfit owned by Dubya's Yalie pal William DeWitt Jr.,
buys out Bush Exploration, setting up young Bush as CEO at $75,000 a year
and giving him 1.1 million shares of the firm's stock. Another flop. The
company's fortunes soon sink, with $400,000 in losses and a debt of $3
million.
• 1986: In the nick of time, Bush and
partners merge the failing Spectrum with Harken Oil, a Dallas exploration
company, with a $2 million stock purchase. Bush puts up about $500,000 and
gets a $120,000 annual consulting fee along with $131,250 in stock
options. Harken is a small outfit, looking for oil opportunities within
the U.S. Then out of the blue comes Harvard Management Corporation, an
investment adviser for Harvard University's endowment portfolio. It pumps
millions into the venture.
• 1990: Although Harken has no
international expertise, it gets the attention of the Bahrain National Oil
Company, which unexpectedly appears on the scene and bypasses big oil's
Amoco and Chevron to sign a production agreement with the little Texas
concern. The contract grants Harken exclusive rights to what seems to be a
promising offshore area squeezed between two productive tracts owned by
Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The Wall Street Journal speculates Bahrain
was trying to cozy up to Daddy Bush, who was plotting an assault on Iraq
after Saddam Hussein seized Kuwait.
Bass Enterprises Production Company
finances the Bahrain drilling with $25 million, and Harvard Management
raises its investment. A couple of members of the Fort Worth Bass family
have places on Team 100, an elite business group contributing to the
Republican National Committee.
In June, Harken drills two dry holes in
Bahrain. The future looks bleak. Dubya dumps two-thirds of his Harken
holdings (212,140 shares), for $848,560. He uses some of this money to buy
into the Texas Rangers baseball club. This is a lot of stock to dump on
the market all at once, and brokers say it was purchased by an unnamed
institutional investor.
That August, Harken posts a loss of $23
million.
• January 1991: Daddy Bush attacks
Iraq.
• February 1991: Dubya, as the
official in charge at Harken, reports his big stock sale to the
SEC—eight months late.
• April 1991: The SEC begins an
investigation into Harken dealings. Chairman Richard Breeden, who had been
appointed by the senior Bush and served him as an economic policy adviser,
hails from Baker & Botts, a big Texas oil law firm where he was a
partner. Inside the SEC, James Doty, general counsel and the official in
charge of any litigation that might come out of the Harken investigation,
is another alumnus of Baker & Botts. And as a private attorney, before
joining the government, Doty represented the younger Bush in matters
related to Dubya's ownership of the Rangers.
• 1993: The SEC ends its Harken
investigation following perfunctory interviews.
The good people of Baker & Botts
continued looking out for Shrub. Since 1993, Breeden, Doty, and other
lawyers there have given him $182,050 for his various political campaigns,
making the firm one of his biggest supporters.(12) |
| Upon appointment as
president, Bush appoints 6 Iran-contra defendants to his staff, (13) fills
the upper levels of the White house and pentagon with senior members of
the PNAC (14) including his speech writer, chief advisor, secretary of
defense, and vice president. Uses the terrorist attacks of 9-11 (16) to
illegally invade and occupy Iraq under the false pretense of imminent
threat (15) and reaps billions for Cheney's Halliburton, Rumsfeld's
Bechtel, and his own family's Carlyle group. |
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| (1)
http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/dossier/id195/pg1/ |
| (2) http://www.clamormagazine.org/features/issue14.3_feature.html |
| (3) http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3713.htm |
| (4) http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=39&contentid=997 |
| (5) http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=39&contentid=963&page=2 |
| (6) http://www.oldamericancentury.org/bushcontra.htm |
| (7) http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/1992/09/bushboys.html |
| (8) http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0204-06.htm |
| (9) http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Marvin_Bush |
| (10) http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/BushFV.html#p2 |
| (11) http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=122&row=1 |
| (12) http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0228/ridgeway.php |
| (13) http://www.blythe.org/nytransfer-subs/Central_America/Iran-Contra_Felons_Get_Good_Jobs_from_Bush |
| (14) http://www.oldamericancentury.org/pnac.htm |
| (15)
http://babelogue.citypages.com:8080/sperry/stories/storyReader$526 |
| (16)
http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/ |
| (17)
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Jonathan_Bush |
| (18) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A28396-2004May14?language=printer |
| (19)
http://www.davidsirota.com/2004/05/bushs-uncle-is-executive-at-bank-fined.html |
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| Behind
George W, there are four generations of Bushes and Walkers devoted first
to using political networks to pile up and protect personal fortunes and,
latterly, to using absolutely any means to gain office, not because they
want to do good, but because they are what passes in American for
hereditary aristocrats. |
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