[independentmind]

BCCI was a bi-partisan affair.

[thinden]

When Harken needed capital to expand, Bush — by then a member of Harken’s board — helped the company obtain a $25 million infusion from the Union Bank of Switzerland, via an Arkansas investment banker named Jackson Stephens.

never have understood why UBS would take a $25mm equity position in a texas wildcatter? wouldn't think a conservative swiss bank was into venture capital.