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In reply to the discussion: Two Things I Will Remember GH Bush for: 1) his Eternal Hoax on the Public and 2) how he conceals it [View all]anobserver2
(923 posts)79. From July 2015: "Exclusive: Why Doesn't Jeb Want to Talk About Lehman Bros?"
Excerpt below from:
https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/exclusive-why-doesnt-jeb-want-to-talk-about-lehman-bros
By Charlie GasparinoPublished July 10, 2015Charlie Breaks ItFOXBusiness
Jeb Bush apparently doesnt want people to know that he worked at Lehman Brothers, the now-defunct investment bank whose collapse led to the broader financial meltdown in 2008....
How do I know this? Not from the Bush people or even from all those tax returns he released last week, but from countless anonymous sources on Wall Street and once source who isnt: Anton Valukas, a Reagan appointed former U.S. Attorney who went on to become the examiner for the Lehman bankruptcy.
As part of his work looking at what caused the largest bankruptcy is the nations history, Valukas produced a report that runs nearly 500 pages. ...
...the Bush people are clearly hiding something given all the back and forth. Keep in mind that the paperwork that accompanied his tax returnsthe same tax returns the Bush campaign went to great lengths to show how he paid the maximum tax ratebarely mentioned his work for Barclays as an adviser, and made no mention of his time at Lehman. We still dont know, exactly, what he did at either firm.
Jeb Bush earned more money from Wall Street than any single sourcenearly half of the $29 million he earned between the time he left the Florida governors mansion in 2007 and when he decided to run for Republican presidential nomination in December 2014.
And guess what: it would be nice to know exactly how the guy who wants to run the country made his millions in an industry as complex and controversial as banking. Wall Street isnt a charityits a big business that has warped laws, weakened regulations and has donated to countless politicians from both parties.
As someone who has covered Wall Street for 25 years, take it from me: We want to know what Jeb did for the financial industry now, not if and when he makes it to the White House.
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Now, bear in mind: Jeb Bush, in my opinion, has:
1) no business degree,
2) no actual college degree,
3) never started his own business,
4) never worked as an investment banker, and
5) no qualifications other than his name (and elected office as governor, which he obtained by deception).
And this Fox news business reporter above, who has covered Wall Street for "25 years," finds it a bit odd that when a presidential candidate named Jeb Bush collects more than half of his $29 million in income from Wall Street, but won't say how or why he got those fees, then, more questions need to be asked.
I agree.
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Two Things I Will Remember GH Bush for: 1) his Eternal Hoax on the Public and 2) how he conceals it [View all]
anobserver2
Dec 2018
OP
Proving that different biographers can describe totally different people.
McCamy Taylor
Dec 2018
#14
The 3rd point - practical matters: Hard to "un-do" what an elected official has done
anobserver2
Dec 2018
#73
From July 2015: "Exclusive: Why Doesn't Jeb Want to Talk About Lehman Bros?"
anobserver2
Dec 2018
#79
Another good read: Carl Bernstein's 1977 Rolling Stone article on CIA and the Media and Senate
anobserver2
Dec 2018
#88
Motive: Can't go into the private sector and risk being exposed; so - cash in at the public sector
anobserver2
Dec 2018
#89
A Dec 2015 DU thread on Jeb Bush and his college career - and how media reports it
anobserver2
Dec 2018
#90
In fact, journalists should also quote FERPA federal law when reporting politicians' alleged degrees
anobserver2
Jan 2019
#95
I'd like to see the Supreme Court discuss other questions, too, since: elections have consequences
anobserver2
Jan 2019
#97
I will remember him most for denying that atheists are deserving of American citizenship
Goodheart
Dec 2018
#20
How about giving the names of these real people you claim to have interviewed.
WillowTree
Dec 2018
#62
This has really damaged your credibility with a lot of DUers. Just read the read the responses.
WillowTree
Dec 2018
#63
This all reminds me of "The Emperor's New Clothes" by Hans Christian Andersen
anobserver2
Dec 2018
#85