The tumultuous and tawdry travels of Neil Bush

[cosmicdot]

by
Bill Berkowitz

December 23, 2005

The tumultuous and tawdry travels of Neil Bush

These days, while President George W. Bush is all about convincing the American public that he has a "Plan for Victory" in Iraq, his younger brother, Neil, is all about taking advantage of the family name. While in a series of speeches the president has been trumpeting a 35-page National Security Council document titled, "Our National Strategy for Victory in Iraq," brother Neil has been globetrotting with high-powered comrades and touting his company's prospectus.

Over the past six months, Neil Bush, the son of former President George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Bush and the younger brother of the president, has been shepherded around several former Soviet republics by a man wanted for fraud by Russian authorities, and has showed up in the Philippines and Taiwan at the side of a self-styled messiah.

If people know anything at all about the star-crossed Neil Bush it likely relates to either his role in the failed Silverado Savings and Loan scandal during the 1980s, which cost taxpayers more than $1 billion, or, more recently, the lurid details of his divorce from his wife of 23 years.

After a brief hiatus from the public spotlight, Neil Bush is back. Within a three-month period, Bush has shown up in Latvia, Ukraine and Georgia with Russian fugitive Boris Berezovsky, and has appeared at the side of the Unification Church's Rev. Sun Myung Moon in Taiwan and the Philippines.

In September, Bush visited Latvia with Boris Berezovsky, described by the Washington Post as "a fugitive Russian tycoon who made millions in the violent scramble for control of Russian government assets after the fall of communism."

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http://www.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=100

[sam sarrha]

1. after warning the Silverado board of impending audit, they dumped their

stocks and bailed.. this was done with insider information from his father or friends in the government.

after the smoke cleared the people he helped rip of the bank gave him a $20,000,000 loan with not payment schedule or interest rates.

neil has started a chain of tutoring franchises that help students pass the Government NCLB tests.. from families that can afford the cost.

[4morewars]

2. What a slimy fucker !

Really the whole family sucks, but this guy is just oily.