Desperate Mission: Jeb Bush Asked Mexican Billionaire Carlos Slim To Save Lehman Brothers

Forbes ^ | 4/21/14 | Dolia Estevez

[jimbo123]

n the summer of 2008, as the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression was unfolding, Jeb Bush, Florida’s former governor and brother of then President George W. Bush, traveled to Mexico to ask Mexican telecom mogul Carlos Slim Helú to rescue Lehman Brothers, The New York Times reported.

In a front page article on Monday, The Times revealed that within a year of ending his term as Florida’s governor, Bush had signed on as consultant to Lehman Brothers, where he was enlisted to reach out to Carlos Slim in a plan code-named Project Verde (Green Project). Slim, says the Times, was not interested in making a major investment in Lehman Brothers—the Wall Street giant whose bankruptcy catalyzed the financial meltdown—or striking up a joint venture with it. “Project Verde was unsuccessful,” Bush wrote to a Lehman colleague in early July 2008.

When asked to confirm the story, Arturo Elías Ayub, Slim’s spokesperson and son-in-law, told me he had no comment.

Based on records and interviews that show that Jeb Bush participated in the “fevered, last-ditch efforts to prop up Lehman Brothers, a Wall Street bank weighed down by toxic mortgage-backed securities,” The Times learned about Bush’s failed mission, which was unknown until now. The daily says that emails show that as a paid adviser to the company in 2008, Jeb Bush met with Slim Helú as Lehman sought to persuade the world’s second richest man to make a sizable investment in the firm.

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The revelation is one more example of how Slim is often seen in the U.S: as a “lender of last resort” to troubled companies, including The New York Times.

[jimbo123]

The revelation is one more example of how Slim is often seen in the U.S: as a “lender of last resort” to troubled companies, including The New York Times.

[tennmountainman]

Oh my. Jeb should run as President of Mexico.

[jimbo123]

[Paulie]

So it’s Slim, not Columbia, that is driving the Bush insistence on open borders?

The plot thickens...

[mountainfolk]

IMO, Slim is not the source of the push for open boarders. It is George Soros who himself has masters pulling the strings of willing puppets up and down their tier of world power. Slim would be involved in one or another way because to do business world wide is to overlap all boundaries.

[bkepley]

Columba..COLUMBA..

[ronnie raygun]

So we now know how jeb is compromised at the expence of the AMERICAN PEOPLE and we also found out how chief justice roberts was compromised at the expence of the AMERICAN PEOPLE with his irish adopted child thru south america side stepping the laws of ireland, how many more like mccain, lindsey, bonehead mcconnell are also compromised by the commie socialist regime in power? We need a good witch hunt trial and jail for these traitors whoare selling America out from underneath Americans

[tflabo]

Should have saved Terri Schiavo instead. Jebber’s aint the man however for the job.
So be it.

[PoloSec]

Trump ridiculed (most deservedly) Bush mercilessly in his speech last night and this is one of the issues he brought up.

Bush’s STUPID participation with Lehman Bros losers par excellence!

TRUMP used the word STUPID umpteen times last night in reference to the entire gov’t it was most refreshing to hear, he has learned telling it like it is; that is what the people want to hear because they believe and know that almost everything this current gov’t is doing is STUPID and politicians have thus far been avoiding saying it straight out (STUPID), Trump has tapped into a gold mine and he confessed last night he didn’t even know it himself until he seen the reaction to his plain ordinary speech on illegal immigration, people are tired of political speak and all the politically correct language.

[Paulie]

“Columba..COLUMBA”

That’s what I first thought, but I read it in two different publications spelled ‘Columbia’. Obviously mistakes.

Well, as they say: don’t always believe what you read.

Thanks for clearing that up.

[bkepley]

I know..I’ve also seen it in major publications spelled wrong. I guess they don’t bother paying someone to edit anymore.

[HarleyLady27]

In the summer of 2008, as the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression was unfolding, Jeb Bush, Florida’s former governor and brother of then President George W. Bush, traveled to Mexico to ask Mexican telecom mogul Carlos Slim Helú to rescue Lehman Brothers, The New York Times reported.
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That right there tells you what a traitor Jebbie is, he’s only in it for himself....any better than his brother? ... any better than ‘slob boy of the oval office’?...any better than ‘The Old Hag’?....

I’m still researching, listening, comparing past actions, votes, until I make up my mind...