Is Neil Bush running China policy, or just collecting money?

[ElsewheresDaughter]

Calpundit http://www.calpundit.com/archives/002728.html has a post about China boss Jiang Zemin's son Jiang Mianheng paying $2 million to presidential brother Neil Bush for, well, maybe a cup of tea? And a few weeks back Josh Marshall at TalkingPointsMemo http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2003_11_09.html#002192 noted the furor in Taiwan http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2003_11_09.html#002193 over Taiwan boss Chen Shui Bian paying $1 million to Neil Bush for, I don't know, maybe a hotdog and Coke together?

The mainstream press hasn't been all over this, obviously. Wonder when that will happen.

http://whosecapitalism.typepad.com/blog/2003/11/is_neil_bush_ru.html

For more details about this, check out this Reuters story.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2249990

Neil Bush, younger brother of President 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 $2 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 $2 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 inked 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.

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[sam sarrha]

1. If there is a Bush involved in big money and power.. they are in deep and

F'n it up for everybody....!!!!