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OKNancy

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4. The talking heads on CNBC said he sure wasn't making investments like he was running
Sat Dec 13, 2014, 06:05 PM
Dec 2014

This was Friday, I believe. They said all his investments sure didn't seem like a good idea for someone running.
He made recent private equity investments and I THINK they said did some stuff with off-shore accounts.
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I just did a search and found this from Bloomberg:

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/features/2014-12-11/jeb-bush-has-a-mitt-romney-problem

Documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Nov. 27 list Bush as chairman and manager of a new offshore private equity fund, BH Global Aviation, which raised $61 million in September, largely from foreign ­investors. In November the fund ­incorporated in the United Kingdom and Wales­—a ­structure, several independent finance lawyers say, that operates like a tax haven by allowing overseas investors to avoid U.S. taxes and regulations.

much more at the link

Also: “I think it signals someone who isn’t seriously looking at the presidency or he wouldn’t have gone down this path.”

Republican consultant John Brabender

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