Bush Family / Administration Values
Current Investigations
* Cheney's secretive Energy Task Force was investigated by the GAO
and the case is currently pending at the Supreme Court.
* The Plame Game is under investigation by the Justice Department.
* Bush's Medicare scam and the circumstances that led the
administration to lie to Congress about the cost of the legislation
is under investigation by the HHS inspector general's office.
* The massive intelligence failure that led Bush to lie to the world
about the Iraqi threat is under investigation by a
congressionally-authorized independent commission (which Bush
fought the creation of).
* Bribes offered on the House floor to Rep. Nick Smith (R-Mich.) in
exchange for his vote on Bush's Medicare plan are under
investigation by the House Ethics Committee and the Justice
Department.
* Attorney General John Ashcroft was under investigation by the
Federal Election Commission for violating campaign finance laws in
2000, and the FEC concluded that Ashcroft accepted $110,000 in
illegal contributions.
* An investigation into House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's criminal
fundraising schemes in Texas -- which allegedly used corporate
funds to help state GOP lawmakers -- is already before a Texas
grand jury.
* Republican staffers on the Senate Judiciary Committee were
investigated for stealing thousands of confidential memos from Dem
computers, a matter that has now been referred to the Justice
Department for a possible criminal probe.
* Republican Connecticut Gov. John Rowland is under a criminal
investigation (and an impeachment investigation) after he lied
about prominent state contractors and several government aides
paying for refurbishments to his lake-front cottage.
* Former Rep. Bill Janklow (R-S.D.) was under investigation for
vehicular manslaughter, a crime for which he was later convicted.
* The Pentagon launched a formal investigation into well-armed
evangelist and three-star General William "Jerry" Boykin, Bush's
pick for deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence, and his
record of extreme religious rhetoric.
* The circumstances that led to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11,
2001 are under investigation by a congressionally-authorized
independent commission (which, again, Bush fought the creation of
and then later resisted cooperating with).
* California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was investigated for violating
state campaign finance laws, a charge for which he was later found guilty
by a state judge. The state has a $100,000 cap on candidate loans;
Schwarzenegger loaned himself over $4 million in the closing days of
his campaign.
* The forged documents that led Bush to inaccurately claim that Iraq
had sought to purchase uranium from Niger are under investigation by
a Senate committee and the FBI.
* John Korsmo, Bush's choice to chair the Federal Housing Finance
Board, is the target of an ongoing Justice Department criminal probe
related to his political fundraising activities and their subsequent
cover-up. The scandal cost Korsmo his career; he was forced to resign
from his position.
* The Texas GOP's decision to seek assistance from the FAA
to track down Democratic lawmakers fleeing the state to deny a
legislative quorum was the subject of two formal inquiries -- one
from the U.S. Department of Transportation, the other from the
Department of Homeland Security.
* And honorable mentions should go, of course, to investigations into
Halliburton (Dick Cheney's former company) and Enron (George Bush's
biggest corporate supporter).
Source:Carpetbagger Report
Reuters - Thu Oct 13,12:56 AM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has been subpoenaed to
turn over personal records in an investigation into possible insider trading,
The Washington Post reported on Thursday.
Bush family’s dirty little secret:
President’s oil companies funded by Bin Laden family
and wealthy Saudis who financed Osama bin Laden
Source:American Free Press Oct 7th, 2001
George Bush Jr.
TRUST OR HUSTLE: The Bush Record
In 1992, US News and World Report concluded that in one important
respect, “George W. Bush has less in common with his father than
with his younger brother Neil,” having “also benefited from some
questionable but less well-known business associations.”It
noted, in particular, that Bush sold $828,560 worth of Harken
stock [on June 20, 1990] just one week before the company stock
posted unusually poor quarterly earnings and Harken stock plunged
sharply. Shares lost more than 60% of their value over 6 months.
When Bush sold his shares, he was a member of a company committee
studying the effect of Harken’s restructuring, a move to appease
anxious creditors. According to documents on file with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, his position on the Harken
committee gave Bush detailed knowledge of the company’s
deteriorating financial condition. The SEC received word of
Bush’s trade eight months late. Bush has said he filed the notice
but that is was lost.
Read About It
1976
The Bush campaign acknowledged that Governor Bush had a
drunk driving arrest in 1976.
1971
Bush performed the work to erase a cocaine-possession
infraction from his record.
1972
Bush was arrested for cocaine use in 1972 in Houston and that a judge
expunged the record as a favor to political allies of Bush's father,
President Bush.
1988
At the Republican National Convention in 1988, George W. Bush
was asked by a Hartford Courant reporter about what he
and his father talked about when they weren't talking
about politics.
"Pussy," Bush replied.
Read About It
What was Jr. doing in the month before 9-11 in Texas when he should have
been reading security reports? Come on now, he had only been in office
6 months when he took a 30 day vacation.
Dick Cheney
The Dick explaining how much he drank.
Cheney was convicted of drunk driving twice during an eight-month
period in the early 1960s in his home state of Wyoming. Cheney told
members of the Senate Armed Services committee about the DWI
arrests during a closed confirmation hearing.
Read About It.
Jed Bush
Bush's 24-year-old daughter Noelle has been undergoing treatment
since her Jan. 29 arrest on charges of trying to buy Xanax with a
fraudulent prescription.
9-13-2002 Police Begin Criminal Investigation Against Noelle Bush
Police said an employee discovered crack cocaine
in one of Noelle Bush's shoes Monday night.
George Bush Sr.
"President Bush's pardon of Caspar Weinberger and other Iran-contra defendants
undermines the principle that no man is above the law.
It demonstrates that powerful people with powerful allies can commit
serious crimes in high office -- deliberately abusing the public trust without
consequence."
Independent Counsel on Iran-Contra
Bush Pardons 6 in Iran Affair,
Aborting a Weinberger Trial;
Prosecutor Assails 'Cover-Up'
Source:New York Times
A recent article in the Charlotte Observer speculates on why President
George Bush, two days before leaving office, pardoned a small-time
Pakistani heroin smuggler serving a long sentence in a North Carolina
federal prison (John Monk and Gary Wright, "Why Did Bush Free Smuggler?
Mystery Lingers
in Charlotte Case," The Charlotte Observer, 3/27/93, 1A).
Former President Bush granted last-minute pardon to contributor's son
CNN has learned about a pardon granted by former President Bush to
Edwin Cox Jr., whose family contributed nearly $200,000 to the
Bush family's campaigns and to Republican campaign committees from 1980 to 2000,
according to documents obtained by CNN.
Time magazine, which first reported the story on its Web site
Tuesday evening, also reports that Cox's father,
Texas oilman Edwin L. Cox Sr., contributed at least $100,000 to the
George Bush Presidential Library near Austin, Texas.
Bush pardoned Cox on January 18, 1993, two days before leaving the
White House.
Prescott Bush
George W. Bush's grandfather
Prescott Bush got into a little bit of trouble back in the 1940s.
While American soldiers were fighting the Nazis in WWII, a few of the companies
Precott managed were seized under the Trading with the Enemy Act because
they were selling fuel to, and laundering money for, the Nazis.
Read About It
In 1918 it is said that he robbed the grave and stole the skull
of the Native American warrior Geronimo as part of an
initiation into Yale's Skull and Bones Society.
The Skull and Bones society has been important to the
Bush Family. George Bush Sr. and George W. Bush were also
members of this secret society.
Neil Bush
HOUSTON (AP)
Neil Bush had sex with women who showed up uninvited
at his hotel rooms in Asia; he had an affair and may
have fathered a child out of wedlock; and he stands
to make millions from businesses in which he has little
expertise -- including a computer-chip company managed
in part by the son of former Chinese
president Jiang Zemin.
Read About It
Sharon Bush
Sharon Bush, the estranged wife of
President George W. Bush's younger brother Neil,
is planning to write a tell-all book about her two
decades with the Bush family,
The Observer has learned.
Mrs. Bush is in the middle of a divorce battle
with Neil Bush, and the fight has turned nasty on
both sides. The Observer has obtained a deposition
given by Mr. Bush on March 4, in which he described
his marriage as "broken" and "loveless."
In her book, Ms. Bush wants to detail her
disillusionment with the family. According to
her associates, she has grown despondent about
her treatment at the hands of the Bushes.
She said family members have turned their backs
on her ever since last year, when she learned
that her husband wanted to end their marriage
after carrying on an extramarital affair with
one of Barbara Bush's former assistants.
John Ellis Bush
AUSTIN, Texas - The youngest son of Florida Gov.
Jeb Bush was arrested early Friday and charged with
public intoxication and resisting arrest, law
enforcement officials said.
John Ellis Bush, 21, was arrested by agents of the
Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission at 2:30 a.m.
on a corner of Austin’s Sixth Street bar district,
said commission spokesman Roger Wade.
The nephew of President Bush was released on $2,500
bond for the resisting arrest charge, and on a
personal recognizance bond for the public intoxication
charge, officials said.
Source:AP 9-17-2005
John Snow Tresury Secretary
Snow was arrested for drunken driving in 1982 and
was involved in a child-support dispute with his
ex-wife.
Source: White House.
Senate Majority leader Bill Frist(GOP TENN)
Sunday, the senator's son, Jonathan Frist,
17 was arrested for DUI and possession of alcohol
by a minor.
Nashville Channel 5 June 8th, 2003
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