Posted on 12/10/2003 9:46:10 PM PST by DeepInEnemyTerritory
Neil Bush, younger brother of US 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 today, 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 $US2 million ($A2.79 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 in the March 4 deposition, which was seen by Reuters.
"That's correct," Bush, 48, responded.
"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 $US2 million ($A2.79 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 signed 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.
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 $US15,000 ($A20,940) 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.
"Well, you're not an economist are you?"
"Part of my degree is in international economics, but I wouldn't consider myself an economist, no," Bush told him.
Bush did not return calls to his Ignite! office and his divorce lawyer, Rick Flowers, was not available for comment.
The Bush divorce, completed in April, 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 engaged in 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.
Even though the Bush divorce is final, legal problems continue.
Sharon Bush has been sued by Robert Andrews, the former husband of Neil Bush's girlfriend, Maria Andrews, for allegedly charging that the Andrews' 2-year-old son, was fathered by Bush, not Andrews.
Bush this week gave a DNA sample at the request of his ex-wife, but it is not clear when it will be tested, her lawyer, David Berg, said today
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You manage to hide it quite well. Is it an attempt to affect humility?
You just can't admit that you have gaping holes in your knowledge, that you don't know a damned thing about the cattle futures deal/scam, nor the way in which some people ( most, to be factual ) get put on companies' boards, and that I do know about such things. LOL
You've thoroughly lost this one...just quietly slink away and lick your wounded ego.
Nonsense. The President just said of China that "We are partners in diplomacy..." and he has previously said that China is our strategic partner. China is our friend. :)
(does anyone here believe that?)
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There are people here who will believe in anything and defend anything with absolute desperation.
As far as who believes that, Bush believes that.
Howie Carr is talking about this 2003 story now:
Neil Bush, younger brother of US 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
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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 engaged in 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.
The women, he said, simply knocked on the door of his hotel room, entered and engaged in sex with him.
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