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The United States of America - China Chamber of Commerce
200 West Madison Street Suite 2000, Chicago, IL 60606
Tel: (312) 368-0430 Fax: (312) 368-0418
Email:info@usccc.org
Board of Directors
Chairman Prescott S. Bush, Jr.
Prescott Bush Resources, Ltd
Crusader System Gets Boost From Pentagon
"United Defense Industries Inc., controlled by Carlyle Group Inc., would get $4.1 billion from the Pentagon over the next five years for its Crusader artillery system, according to internal budget documents."
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Posted on 9/30/01 8:10 AM Pacific by liberallarry
FAMILY HAD RENOUNCED TIES TO TERRORIST SON BUT FAMILY STILL UNDER FBI INVESTIGATION
FATHER OF PRESIDENT SHOULD PULL OUT OF INTERNATIONAL CONSULTING FIRM
(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm that investigates and prosecutes government corruption and abuse, reacted with disbelief to The Wall Street Journal report of yesterday that George H.W. Bush, the father of President Bush, works for the bin Laden family business in Saudi Arabia through the Carlyle Group, an international consulting firm. The senior Bush had met with the bin Laden family at least twice. (Other top Republicans are also associated with the Carlyle group, such as former Secretary of State James A. Baker.) The terrorist leader Osama bin Laden had supposedly been “disowned” by his family, which runs a multi-billion dollar business in Saudi Arabia and is a major investor in the senior Bush’s firm. Other reports have questioned, though, whether members of his Saudi family have truly cut off Osama bin Laden. Indeed, the Journal also reported yesterday that the FBI has subpoenaed the bin Laden family business’s bank records.
Judicial Watch earlier this year had strongly criticized President Bush’s father’s association with the Carlyle Group, pointing out in a March 5 statement that it was a “conflict of interest (which) could cause problems for America’s foreign policy in Middle East and Asia.” Judicial Watch called for the senior Bush to resign from the firm then.
“This conflict of interest has now turned into a scandal. The idea of the President’s father, an ex-president himself, doing business with a company under investigation by the FBI in the terror attacks of September 11 is horrible. President Bush should not ask, but demand, that his father pull out of the Carlyle Group,” stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman.
“This has the potential of making ‘Billygate’ (Jimmy Carter’s brother’s dealings with Libya) look like small potatoes,” added Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
See "Bin Laden Family Could Profit From a Jump In Defense Spending Due to Ties to U.S. Bank," by Daniel Golden, James Bandler, and Marcus Walker, The Wall Street Journal, 9/28/01 (www.wsj.com, subscription required).
Executive Biography
John F. Harris
Managing Director and CFO
Mr. Harris is a Partner and Managing Director of The Carlyle Group and is based in Washington, DC. He serves as Carlyle’s Chief Financial Officer with overall responsibility for the firm’s investor reporting, internal controls and financial management. Prior to joining Carlyle in April 1997, Mr. Harris was a Vice President with Golub Associates, a private equity firm, where he focused on middle market principal investment transactions. Previously, Mr. Harris was a Senior Manager with 
Arthur Andersen, LLP. Mr. Harris is a graduate of the University of Virginia and is a CPA.
Source: The Carlyle Group, 2001
Former SEC Chairman Levitt to Join The Carlyle Group
dc.internet.com
Staff
May 9, 2001
Arthur Levitt, the former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), is joining The Carlyle Group, a global investment firm, on May 1. Levitt, who was the longest serving SEC chairman in history, will act as senior advisor to Carlyle on a variety of matters relating to the firm's private equity investment activities.
"Arthur Levitt has had an extraordinarily distinguished career in both business and government. As Chairman of the SEC, he demonstrated his strong leadership skills and his deep concerns about the importance of investor protections," Carlyle chairman Frank Carlucci said in making the announcement. "We are very fortunate to have Arthur affiliating with Carlyle, and we are confident that he will make a significant contribution to the firm."
The 25th chairman of the SEC, Levitt served from 1993 through March of this year.
In accepting the position, Mr. Levitt said, "I have known a number of the principals of Carlyle for many years, admire what they have built in the private equity area, and look forward to working in a professional capacity with them and their colleagues."
Carlyle, headquartered in Washington, D.C., is one of the world's largest private equity firms, managing more than $13 billion through 12 different funds operating in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Japan. Since its inception in 1987, Carlyle has invested $5.5 billion of equity capital and achieved a 34 percent internal rate of return on that capital.
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