Posted on 06/28/2015 9:03:59 PM PDT by Mariner
In early 1989, seven weeks after his father moved into the White House, Jeb Bush took a trip to Nigeria.
Nearly 100,000 Nigerians turned out to see him over four days as he accompanied the executives of a Florida company called Moving Water Industries, which had just retained Bush to market the firms pumps. Escorted by the U.S. ambassador to Nigeria, Bush met with the nations political and religious leaders as part of an MWI effort to land a deal that would be worth $80 million.
Jeb Bush reminded Nigerians who his father was
In 1989, Jeb Bush traveled to Nigeria as a private business consultant on behalf of a Florida manufacturing company. In this video of the trip, Jeb Bush was not shy about reminding his hosts that his father, George H.W. Bush, was then president of the United States.
My father is the president of the United States, duly elected by people that have an interest in improving ties everywhere, he told a group of dignitaries in a private meeting, according to a video documenting the visit. The fact that you have done this today is something I will report back to him very quickly when I get back to the United States.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Gee, that's some vote of confidence from a loyalist.
Meanwhile the Clintons are running the largest money laundering organization in the history of American politics but you can hear the crickets over the silence of the MSM.
LOL it had to be Nigeria.
Whether Clinton or Bush, these folks have no integrity, or judgement, when it involves with whom they associate or do business.
If one considers honesty an important part of a person’s character, this doesn’t provide much of a choice on election day, does it?
Doesn’t Bill Clinton consider Barbara Bush to be his second mother or aunt by another uncle or something like that?
As if Bush had to tell them who dad was. ☺
It seems Moving Water Industries in Florida knew exactly how to clinch a deal when they retained Bush to market their stuff.
Some years later he turns up as governor of Florida?
What a hoot.
lol, RINOs will not be protected from the leftwing media no matter how hamny times they bash Conservatives!
[The only documented allegations come down to the fact that he did business with people that later turned out to be deadbeats and crooks,]
From Nigeria? Say it ain’t so!
OK, this guy wants me to help him transfer $35 million dollars out of the country. I just had to give him my SSN, bank account number, routing number, date of birth and mother’s maiden name.
The money should be here any day now.
It’s been a couple of months.
Probably red tape.
The MSM and politicians might be silent but Trump put out his own video recently. In the video he calls Hillary Clinton pathetic for blaming him for the horrific church murders. Not a word from the Clinton camp since.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-thinks-pathetic-hillary-blamed-him-for-charleston-shooting/
I would guess someone at his level has access to lots of good data, knowledge and associates with inside knowledge. A KO bombshell dropped on Hillary at or before the debates would be quite entertaining.
lol...El perfecto
This should really cause Bush issues in this campaign, as it should. And they have video to boot. ☺
Sssh, the Washington Post shouldn’t have let the cat out of the bag until Jeb got the nomination.
They’ve long known about this. Some of his associates in this gig were convicted. Hard to believe he made it to governor.
This is probably nothing more than a hit piece but I like reading about Bush getting slammed LOL
The Clintons and the MSM are on the same team.
If the Shrub klan has its way... just BOHICA.
Nigeria's new President Muhammadu Buhari will visit the White House for talks with US leader Barack Obama on July 20.
A statement put out by the White House National Security Council on Thursday confirmed that President Obama will be hosting his Nigerian counterpart for wide-ranging talks.
Sources say the talks will be centred around economic issues and security particularly the ongoing insurgency by the militant sect Boko Haram. Buharis visit to Washington next month will be his fourth abroad after trips to neighbouring Chad and Niger since his inauguration in May and an accepted invitation from Cameroon President Paul Biya for talks in Yaounde about the six-year insurgency.
Following his election in March, the first by an opposition politician in Nigeria since independence, Washington and other Western capitals had pledged support to the new dispensation especially in its fight against Boko Haram.
Buhari had vowed to tackle the insurgency and enlisted the military backing of Nigerias neighbours through a multi-national force led by a Nigerian commander. ...
Oh---that reminds me of Chelsea Clinton's Father-in-Law.
Edward "Ed" Mezvinsky is an ex-Democrat congressman.....and a convicted felon. Ed sat on the House Judiciary Committee that decided the fate of Richard Nixon. He was outspoken saying that Nixon was a crook and a disgrace to politics and the nation and should be impeached.
Edward, a lawyer, was married when he met Chelsea's MIL, Marjorie----they soon got married---but divorced after Edward got conned into several notorious Nigerian-based email financial frauds guaranteed to make you rich.
In his haste to get rich quick, to raise money to get in on these "heaven-sent" investment schemes, Edward defrauded many of his friends and business contacts.....including Marjorie's mother.
Alas, when the Nigerians got their hands on Edwards' money, they did a 23 skidoo. Having failed to come up w/ a ROI, Edward got nabbed by the long arm of the law. Mezvinsky pleaded guilty to 31 of 69 felony counts.. He did hard time----spent 7+ years in a federal prison w/ no chance of parole, and still owes $10 million in restitution.
Democrat Congressman 2014 candidate Marjory Margolies is also no stranger to the dollar disease. Because of her husband's felony convictions, she filed for bankruptcy. But the court would NOT discharge her of her debts, finding that she could NOT explain where some $1 million in assets had vanished, in the previous 4 year span...during Mezvitsky's crime spree.
In their heyday, Ed Mezvinsky and then-wife Marjorie, herself a former Democratic congresswoman from Pennsylvania (an ex-TV reporter---and recent election loser), were part of the political and social elite in Philadelphia.
The Mezvinskys were close to Bill and Hillary Clinton and were frequent guests at the White House. Prosecutors say Mezvinsky exploited his ties to the Clintons, including his son's relationship with Chelsea, to woo investors to contribute more money to the Nigerian schemes.
In an interview with Des Moines Register from prison in 2003, Mezvinsky said he found the notoriously fraudulent Nigerian Black Ink scam "convincing."
STILL A BELIEVER "The Nigerian man came out with a chemical, threw it on the money, and it all turned to $100 bills. He gave me 10 to have them tested back home. And they were real," Mezvinsky told a reporter.
JEB AND THE VENEZUELAN
DEMOCRAT FUND-RAISER, CLINTON FOUNDATION DONOR, AND FRAUDSTER
Osorio (in blue shirt) (that's Jebs wife in front.
BACKSTORY The outstanding cable TV anthology show "American Greed" did a segment on Venezuelan fraudster (now jailed) Claudio Osorio. Osorio, a Venezuelan schemer, organized high profile fundraisers, and was in thick w/ Democrats Obama, Hillary and Bill-----and with Jeb Bush.
Osorio donated some $80,000 to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, according to FEC records. Osorio also donated mega-bucks to the Clinton Global Initiative Foundation.
Osorio's shell company, Innovida, submitted falsified documents and received $3.5 million in loans from the US govt----the US Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) supposedly to build homes in Haiti after the catastrophic earthquake.
In September 2011, OPIC began questioning Innovida's "negative operating cash flow." A court appointed receiver in charge of investigating Innovida's finances indicated that "$37.5 million in funds had been moved offshore, but he had so far been unable to find out what happened to the money."
Osorio used our constitutional privileges--- invoking the fifth amendment right against self-incrimination---when asked if company funds had been used to pay personal expenses.
Osorio was indicted on two counts of wire fraud and one count of major fraud, amongst other charges. Federal prosecutors said Osorio defrauded investors from 2007-10, exaggerating the company's finances and pocketing millions of dollars to fund a lavish lifestyle. The SEC claimed that Osorio had illegally used investor money to pay for a Miami Beach mansion, a Maserati car and a Colorado mountain retreat home.
American Greed has Jeb on-tape sizing-up Osorio's pre-fab housing project for Haitian refugees (which turned out to be a scam).
Jeb Bush agreed to return $270,000 that he was paid as a consultant to convicted fraudster Claudio Osorio and Osorios bogus companies.
Osorio and friends
Yes, I remember that. Actually thought about mentioning it, too.
As usual, you were prepared and had the full story, which is great!
Isn’t it nice to see Mezvinsky-—and the Clintons-—remaining true to the enduring Democrat motto?
“There’s a sucker born every minute...and they all vote for us.”
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