Now that I re-read it, the details are all wrong- Nigeria, water pumps, not oil...(but fun; this article reminds that Feeney- just implicated in vote fraud- was Jeb's running mate)
http://www.miami.com/mld/miami/4221945.htmIt was 1991, dad was in the White House, and Jeb Bush was hopscotching through Nigeria in a corporate jet, on his way to meet government officials he hoped would buy $74 million worth of water pumps from his South Florida business partner.
On the jet with Bush was a Nigerian associate in the deal, Al-Haji Mohammed Indimi, who carried several heavy Hartmann suitcases. At least one of the bags, the airplane's pilot says, was packed with cash to bribe the Nigerian officials.
Did Jeb Bush know about the cash in the suitcase? Did he understand what the money was for?
Bush declined to be interviewed for this story. His campaign emphatically denied that he knew anything about suitcases full of bribe money.
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Several times, Bush business associates have landed in prison or in deep legal trouble. Twice in the 1980s, while his father was vice president, the young Jeb Bush intervened in Washington on behalf of people who turned out to be hucksters -- assistance that, however unwittingly on Bush's part, helped advance schemes to defraud the U.S. government of millions of dollars.
Tom Feeney, Bush's running mate in the 1994 governor's race, put the issue succinctly in a letter to GOP officials at the time: ``The only documented allegations come down to the fact that he did business with people that turned out later to be deadbeats and crooks.''