Important information about Neil Bush and Bush family

[AnIndependentTexan]

http://www.rightiswrong.com/ashnews.php?page=showmonth&m=11&y=2003

Neil Bush, a younger brother of US President George W. Bush, has had a $60,000-a-year employment contract with a top adviser to a Washington-based consulting firm set up this year to help companies secure contracts in Iraq.
Neil Bush disclosed the payments during divorce proceedings in March from his now ex-wife, Sharon. The divorce was finalised in April and the court papers were disclosed by the Houston Chronicle this week.
Mr Bush said he was co-chairman of Crest Investment Corporation, a company based in Houston, Texas, that invests in energy and other ventures. For this he received $15,000 every three months for working an average three or four hours a week.
The other co-chairman and principal of Crest is Jamal Daniel, a Syrian-American who is an advisory board member of New Bridge Strategies, a company set up this year by a group of businessmen with close links to the Bush family or administrations. Its chairman is Joe Allbaugh, George W. Bush's campaign director in the 2000 presidential elections.
Other figures at New Bridge include Ed Rogers, its vice-chairman and a senior official in the Reagan and first Bush administrations, and Lanny Griffith, with whom he works in the lobby firm Barbour Griffith & Rogers. Lord Charles Powell, adviser to former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, is listed as an advisory board member.
On its website, New Bridge describes itself as being created to "take advantage of business opportunities in the Middle East following the conclusion of the US-led war in Iraq".
In his deposition, Neil Bush said he provided Crest "miscellaneous consulting services". This included "answering phone calls when Jamail Daniel, the other co-chairman, called and asked for advice".
There is evidence that the relationship between Mr Bush and Mr Daniel goes further. Joseph Peacock, Crest's company secretary, is one of the original investors in Ignite, Neil Bush's educational software company based in Austin, Texas.
In 1996, Mr Daniel and his wife hosted a $1,000-a-plate fund-raising dinner at their Houston mansion for the Texas Alliance Against Alcohol Abuse. The event was chaired by Sharon Bush, while George H. W. Bush, the former president, and his wife Barbara were to be present, according to the Houston Chronicle in 1996.
Other investors in Ignite, which was founded last year, include George H. W. and Barbara Bush, and Winston Wong, a Taiwan businessman who started the Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. The court papers further show Mr Bush benefits from a contract with Grace, a company also backed by Jiang Miangheng, son of Jiang Zemin, the former president of China.
Under the deal, signed on August 15 2002, Grace would pay Mr Bush $2m in shares over five years, issued in annual $400,000 increments.
In return, according to the Los Angeles Times, Mr Bush agreed to "provide GSMC from time to time with business strategies and policies; latest information and trends of the related industry, and other advice", according to the contract.
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http://www.newsfrombabylon.com/index.php?q=node/2473&CSID=eb5d42644912e4f0bf3564f2508a586e

The Bush family may be heading for an accusation of nepotism after it was revealed that Ignite, a software company run by controversial businessman Neil Bush, is targeting schools in Florida where his brother Jeb is governor.
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http://www.nuthole.com/politics/?_start=11

Some of you may have seen (in some obscure media outlet) mention of Neil Bush admitting, in his divorce papers, that he played around with some undisclosed number of prostitutes in Southeast Asia while he was there "on business". Of course, this son-of-a-Bush can't just come clean, no; he is compelled to wrap this misadventure in a lie: see, the women simply knocked on his hotel door and then had sex with him; He didn't pay them, and therefore didn't know they were callgirls! Perhaps Neil thought his animal magnetism was so strong that women could smell him right through the door and out in the street, and simply had to have him. That he was there as a guest/"business partner" of the son of the former president of China doesn't seem to come into play there at all.
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http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2004/837

Neil was targeting schools in Florida to buy software from his company, Ignite. First, Florida Governor Jeb Bush made education testing a key component of his administration’s educational policy. Then the Associated Press (AP) exposed that Neil was peddling his test preparation software at $30 per Florida student. Who knows Neil’s motives? He might have just been trying to help deprived inner city children prepare for racially and culturally biased standardized exams.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/11/07/MNG3Q9ME2V1.DTL

Controversial gas deal involved Bush's brother Neil
Harbor commission offered investment firm an exclusive lease
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http://liberty.hypermart.net/voices/2004/Election_Countdown-The_Gloves_are_off.htm

Neil Bush, son of then vice president of the United States, was scheduled to have dinner on March 31, 1981, with Scott Hinckley, brother of John Hinckley, the day after a bullet came within an inch of making Neil Bush's father the new president of the United States.
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http://multinationalmonitor.org/mm2004/05012004/patronage.html

Neil Bush has been involved in the Iraq contract gravy train through his association with John Howland and Jamal Daniel of New Bridge Strategies. The President's brother has written letters to push businesses established by Howland and Daniel, including Crest Investment Corporation, which in turn employs Bush as co-chair. Bush receives $60,000 a year from Crest for working an average of three or four hours a week, according to the Financial Times.
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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/9/13/140107.shtml

Kelley suggested she didn't want to spook Mrs. Bush by recording her comments, explaining, "She was hysterical at the time, and she said herself that Neil Bush left a message on her tape machine saying that if she didn't stop what she was doing she'd find herself in a dark alley."

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http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Neil_Mallon_Bush

According to information gathered by ABCNews in 2000, Neil Bush is a "Houston businessman worked on failed 1978 congressional campaign and helped out with each of his father?s campaigns. Currently director of Interlink, an international consultancy based in Houston ? in his father?s offices. Noted most for his involvement as director of the failed Silverado Savings and Loan, which cost the federal government $1 billion to clean-up during the S&L crisis. Regulators never pressed charges, but he paid $50,000 to settle a lawsuit lodged by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Married to Sharon Smith, who he met while campaigning for his father in New Hampshire. They have two children, Lauren and Pierce. Education: St. Alban?s preperatory; Tulane University BA International Relations; MA Business."<1>
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http://www.thiscenturysucks.com/2003_08_24_old.html

With our constant picking on Jeb and George, I felt bad that we weren’t picking on the S&L wonder boy: Neil Bush more (poor Marvin doesn’t get mentioned again). Well according to Fu**ked Company, Neil’s little company “Ignite Learning” seems to have just missed its second payroll in a roll. This is also the 8th time this year they missed payroll. Well besides Neil’s Ignite getting a lot of business from the state of Florida (I wonder why?), I really don’t know much about it.

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http://www.ablechild.org/Letters/letter_to_neil_bush%2011-24-02.htm

Letter to Neil Bush,
Founder, Chairman, & CEO of Ignite Learning





November 24, 2002


Dear Mr. Bush;

Our organization commends your courage and outspokenness regarding the issue of the drugging our children. We firmly believe, as you do, that our educational system is in a crisis state. The mental health industry has planted itself firmly inside our schools, thwarting our efforts at getting sound, proven educational tools in the door. These resources are often passed over or ignored; whereas labeling and drugging is encouraged and generally accepted. This drugging for profit is becoming the "norm" and our children are being left by the wayside.

Sadly, parents are many times misinformed and misled by people within the "professional" community. Currently there are lawsuits addressing the issue of "informed consent" and what information is NOT being provided to parents in regards to ADHD/ADD and the drugs used to "treat" it. The bottom line is, that we, as parents are responsible for providing the safety, care, and protection or our children. This obligation is seriously impeded when we are not provided with ALL the facts surrounding this issue.

As a final note we can only hope that you will continue to speaking out against this outrage. Please use your knowledge of the truth to help get our schools back to their purpose---EDUCATING. Our children are ABLED and NOT Disabled! They need to be addressed as such.

Below we have listed our website address for your information. We will also provide you with the website addressing the recent litigation regarding this issue. Many more suits will follow. Many more parents are speaking out.

Thank you,



Sheila Mathews
Parents for Label and Drug Free Education
www.Ablechild.org




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Neil Bush's Response



Sheila -

Many thanks for the thoughtful email and for your pioneering work on behalf
of kids and parents that need to be better informed on a matter that is of
primary importance to our society. It is sick how out of sync our system
has become to rely on such widespread labeling and drugging. Together we
can make a difference. Let's stay in touch.

In the meantime thanks for the plug for Ignite! We appreciate the word of
mouth benefit of being linked on your website.

Best wishes,

NEIL
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http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair04032004.html

His mother still calls him Neilsie. He refers to his dad, the former president, as Gampy. Neil Bush may be the black sheep of the Bush family, but his relatives have never let him down. Whenever he's been mired in financial, legal or marital imbroglios, someone in the Bush family entourage has always reached out a helping hand and often that hand has slipped Neil a fat check
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http://www.susanohanian.org/show_atrocities.html?id=159

Ms. Thacker denied that Ignite! had an unfair advantage because its founder and CEO, Neil Bush, just happens to be the governor's brother. In fact, Katie Muniz, a spokeswoman for the governor, said Jeb and Neil never even have discussed Ignite!.
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http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2001/05/neilbush.html

It has been more than a decade since Neil Bush, the president's younger brother, helped run a Colorado savings and loan into the ground, costing taxpayers $1 billion. In 1991, federal regulators restricted Neil's banking activities and fined him $50,000 -- but his family connections rescued him, as Republican supporters contributed to a special fund to defray his legal costs. Before long, Neil was once again living off the Bush name, fl ying to Kuwait with his father to sell antipollution equipment to oil contractors.
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http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=105001917

The Austin-based company was founded three years ago and, according to the Associated Press, has raised some $18 million from investors. These include, AP says, a subsidiary of Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton and a Taiwanese businessman who has a semiconductor concern with Chinese president Jiang Zemin's eldest son.

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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/12/1534244

After Neil Bush was banned from banking activities for his role in the Savings and Loan scandal in the late 1980s, he decided to bank on education and founded Ignite Incorporated. Ignite sells software to help students prepare to take comprehensive tests required under the No Child Left Behind act that was pushed through by Neil's older brother - President Bush.
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http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2004-02-26/news/news2.html

After a year's pilot program, Ignite! offered the software to HISD for $10,000 per school. When the board balked, the Bush fund-raising powers swung into action. Landry's Restaurants, the Wells Fargo Foundation and Toyota dealership giant Friedkin Companies each donated $25,000. So did former Iranian ambassador Hushang Ansary, a trustee at the George H.W. Bush presidential library. Contributions totaled $115,000, halving the district's expense.