how that matters is beyond me, but Billy Carter comes to mind (Billy Beer)
and Clintons younger, looser half-brother.
At 10:48 AM 11/26/2003, Wirt Atmar wrote:
>If you're going to run for President of the United States, first check and
>make sure that you don't have any brothers or sisters:
>
>======================================
>
>Business Deals, Sex Romps in Neil Bush Deposition
>Divorce Proceedings Shed Light on Life of President's Younger Brother
>By Jeff Franks, Reuters
>
>HOUSTON (Nov 25) - Neil Bush, younger brother of President George W. 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 on 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 George
>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.
>
>Other presidential siblings of the past have generated controversy, among
>them Billy Carter, who marketed "Billy Beer" to cash in on brother Jimmy's
>presidency, and more recently Roger Clinton, who was accused of trying to
>broker
>pardons at the end of President Bill Clinton's administration.
>
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>
>Wirt Atmar
>
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