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Jeb Bush’s Employers Getting Rich Off “Love Crime” Illegals and Obamacare

Posted on 22 April, 2014 by Rick Wells

The New York Times reports that when Jeb Bush left office seven years ago, he had a net worth of a paltry $1.3 million and a determination to make it grow.
Bush gave it his all with Lehman Brothers, in a frenzied last-minute attempt to keep it afloat that was ultimately unsuccessful. As a paid adviser, he met with Mexican cell phone billionaire Carlos Slim Helú in an attempt to convince him to make a large investment in the firm.
It seems Mr. Bush’s ties to Mexico run deep.
Within a year of leaving the Governor’s mansion in Florida, Bush was onboard at Lehman Brothers, assigned to Project Verde, an attempt to get their hands on Mr. Slim’s Green.
There were other documented conversations between Lehman executives regarding the possibility of Bush enlisting the help of his brother, the President, to persuade the British Prime Minister to allow a merger with a British bank as well as other suggestions. All parties to the conversations indicate that those contacts were never initiated.
Curiously, Barclays, which took over Lehman Brothers now employs Bush to the tune of “in excess of $1 million a year.”
Bush is also tight with Tenet Health Care, a company that aggressively supported and promoted Obamacare due to the profit potential it offered. Perhaps that is why he loves the Mexican “love criminals.” They’re good for his bottom line.
Bush’s corporate track record could someday rival that of his brother Neil. He was employed by InnoVida, a company that went bankrupt in 2011, and whose founder went to prison. The investors lost virtually all of their money.
The company insiders, as it turns out, had utilized faked documents, lied about the health of the business and misappropriated $40 million in company funds.” After a Democrat who lost millions on his InnoVida investment told Bush about the trouble with the company, Bush investigated them.
Jeb Bush also was a board member at Swisher Hygiene, a soap manufacturer. The executives acknowledged at the time that their financial statements were unreliable and that their accounting was inadequate. Once that admission was made, the stock nose-dived and a wave of lawsuits from damaged investors ensued.
Since 2007 Bush has been everywhere, from Wall Street to consulting to real estate.
He’s earned at a minimum $3.2 million from public companies alone, with his speechmaking bringing in millions more.
It’s clear why he’s an establishment GOP favorite and why he’s pro-illegal immigration. He claims it’s his idea of the right thing to do. The assumptions that he is speaking from a humanitarian position rather than from a financial one for his employers might be overly generous.

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Jeb Bush’s Rush to Make Money May Be Hurdle


Jeb Bush in Las Vegas last month.
Jeff Scheid / Las Vegas Review-Journal, via Associated Press

By MICHAEL BARBARO

April 20, 2014

Mr. Bush opposed the Affordable Care Act and has called it “flawed to its core,” like many of his potential rivals in the 2016 campaign. But unlike them, he has earned more than $2 million for sitting on the board a company, Tenet Health Care, that has loudly endorsed the legislation (Obamacare).

Tenet’s chief executive, Trevor Fetter, said Mr. Bush had made no secret of his objections to the health care overhaul at company meetings. But he suggested that Mr. Bush understood the difference between “personal views and what is best for the company.” Mr. Fetter predicts that in 2014, the Affordable Care Act will deliver up to $100 million in new earnings for Tenet.

As it sought to recruit well-heeled investors, an untested and unprofitable Miami company named InnoVida brought aboard a trusted Florida figure in 2007: Jeb Bush, the former governor and the brother of a sitting president.

For potential stockholders, the imprimatur of Mr. Bush, who joined InnoVida as a paid consultant and a member of the board of directors, conferred credibility on the young start-up.

That credibility did not last long. It turned out that the leaders of InnoVida, a manufacturer of inexpensive building materials, had faked documents, lied about the health of the business and misappropriated $40 million in company funds, records show. The company went bankrupt in 2011, its founder eventually went to jail and investors lost nearly all of their money.

Mr. Bush left public office seven years ago with a net worth of $1.3 million and an unapologetic determination to expand his wealth, telling friends that his finances had suffered during his time in government.


A shelter for earthquake-displaced Haitians made by InnoVida, on whose board of directors Mr. Bush sat. The company went bankrupt.
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But his efforts to capitalize on his résumé and reputation have thrust him into situations that may prove challenging to explain should he mount a Republican campaign for the White House. Records and interviews show, for example, that Mr. Bush participated in the fevered, last-ditch efforts to prop up Lehman Brothers, a Wall Street bank weighed down by toxic mortgage-backed securities. As a paid adviser to the company in the summer of 2008, he met with Carlos Slim Helú, a Mexican billionaire, as Lehman sought to persuade Mr. Slim to make a sizable investment in the firm, emails show.

Mr. Bush sat on the board of Swisher Hygiene, a soap maker, at a time when, its executives acknowledged, their financial statements were unreliable and their accounting practices inadequate. That admission contributed to a plunge in stock price that has wiped out more than three-quarters of Swisher’s value and touched off a wave of shareholder lawsuits. Several have named Mr. Bush as a defendant, accusing him and fellow board members of insufficient oversight.

And in a stint that could complicate his appeal to conservatives, Mr. Bush serves as a paid director to Tenet Health Care, the giant hospital owner, which supported President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, aggressively encouraged Americans to sign up for insurance under the program and trumpeted the legislation as a boon to the company’s finances.

The path from public service to private riches is well trodden by politicians of both parties. But, even by that measure, Mr. Bush took an aggressive and expansive approach to making money.


Barclays pays Mr. Bush in excess of $1 million a year, according to executives familiar with his arrangements.
Neil Hall / Reuters

Since 2007, he has left few corners of the economy untouched, working on Wall Street, starting a consulting firm, investing in real estate, advising an emergency preparedness company, sitting on the board of a hospital linens provider, and giving speeches to grocery industry groups, local chambers of commerce and health care conferences.

He has been well paid for his time, earning at least $3.2 million in board fees and stock grants from publicly traded companies alone, records show. His corporate speechmaking appears to have generated millions more: He commands about $50,000 for his speeches, delivering more than 100 since 2007, though some are unpaid. And he has earned millions from his work as an adviser to Lehman Brothers and Barclays, the company that took much of the bank over, according to executives familiar with his arrangements. Today, his pay from Barclays exceeds $1 million a year, these people said.

Mr. Bush declined to be interviewed. His spokeswoman, Kristy Campbell, provided a statement: “Jeb Bush had a successful career in commercial real estate and business before serving as Florida’s governor. After eight rewarding years in public service leading the state, he is enjoying running his own business again.”

His business endeavors are a largely overlooked chapter in a postgovernment biography built around his reputation as a policy maven, nonprofit leader and moderate voice in Republican debates on immigration and education. But as he explores a White House bid, friends said, Mr. Bush’s lucrative career is an unspoken but potent factor in his decision making. Entering the 2016 Republican field would inevitably require dismantling the business empire that he has assembled — an empire that now employs his son Jeb Bush Jr.

“Although he’s been at this for seven years, it’s the last few years that he’s begun to flourish as an investor and build a commendable nest egg,” said Al Cardenas, a longtime Bush friend and adviser. “Leaving all of that behind, all he’s built, is a challenge and a sacrifice for him.”

His overlapping commitments risk spreading him thin. At one point, Mr. Bush sat on the boards of six companies, twice as many as leading corporate governance experts recommend given the time and fiduciary responsibilities of such a position.
Fellow corporate board members are quick to praise Mr. Bush. At Tenet, they said, he has pushed for tougher hospital safety standards; at Rayonier, a major owner of forestland, he has advised them on navigating regulations.

Eye-popping wealth long eluded Mr. Bush. His older brother, George W. Bush, reaped about $14 million profit from an investment in the Texas Rangers baseball team. But Jeb Bush’s career as a real estate entrepreneur in Florida brought him comparatively modest success: He entered the governor’s office in 1999 with a net worth of about $2 million, according to his financial disclosure forms, a figure that fell throughout his two terms.

“People thought of him as wealthy,” said Lance deHaven Smith, a professor of public policy at Florida State University who has studied Mr. Bush’s career. He recalled that when Mr. Bush was governor, his opponents took to calling him a “spoiled little rich kid” to protest his budget cuts.

“It was a misperception,” Mr. deHaven Smith said. “He grew up in a wealthy family, but he took a path that was quite different.”

He seemed eager to change that by 2007, expressing frustration to business and political associates that he had missed out on a boom in the real estate industry during his time as governor; he also turned down a public pension when he left office.

Within a year of departing the Statehouse, he had signed on as consultant to Lehman Brothers, where he was eventually enlisted to reach out to Mr. Slim in a plan code-named Project Verde. Mr. Slim, however, was not interested in making a major investment in Lehman Brothers or striking up a joint venture with it. “Project Verde was unsuccessful,” Mr. Bush wrote to a Lehman colleague in early July 2008.

Lehman executives talked openly about the value of Mr. Bush’s family connections in the midst of the crisis. Lehman’s chief executive, Richard S. Fuld Jr., discussed the possibility of having Mr. Bush ask his brother President Bush to persuade the British prime minister to allow Lehman’s emergency merger with a British bank, according to testimony from the company’s bankruptcy case. Mr. Fuld never followed through, and Mr. Bush did not call the president, a spokeswoman for him said.

Friends and colleagues said Mr. Bush carefully evaluates businesses before working with them. In the case of InnoVida, an aide said, he ran a background check on the founder, a flashy, Maserati-driving businessman named Claudio Osorio. It turned up the bankruptcy of a previous company, the aide said, but nothing to suggest wrongdoing. So Mr. Bush agreed to help market his technology, a construction system that required no cement, steel or wood.

There is no evidence that board members were aware of Mr. Osorio’s fraud. But Christopher Korge, an investor in the company and board member, said he recalled talking to Mr. Bush about their shared frustration with the company’s delays in distributing financial information and reluctance to hold regular board meetings.

In separate interviews, a lawyer for Mr. Osorio, who pleaded guilty, and a lawyer for a group of investors argued that members of the board had exercised little meaningful oversight of the company.

“It was done lackadaisically," said David A. Nuñez, the lawyer whose clients lost millions when InnoVida collapsed. If board members “did their due diligence, really did it, they would have been able to determine this company was not financially solvent and that it was a fraud,” he said.

Mr. Korge, a major Democratic Party fund-raiser who lost millions on his investment in InnoVida, said that once he alerted Mr. Bush to major problems inside the company, the former governor acted swiftly and forcefully to investigate them. “Jeb did everything that he should have done to protect the shareholder,” he said.

Most of Mr. Bush’s career in business has steered clear of politics, allowing him to carefully hone a potential campaign message by delivering speeches, granting television interviews and writing a book. But not all of his corporate work is in sync with his public brand.

Mr. Bush opposed the Affordable Care Act and has called it “flawed to its core,” like many of his potential rivals in the 2016 campaign. But unlike them, he has earned more than $2 million for sitting on the board a company, Tenet Health Care, that has loudly endorsed the legislation.

Tenet’s chief executive, Trevor Fetter, said Mr. Bush had made no secret of his objections to the health care overhaul at company meetings. But he suggested that Mr. Bush understood the difference between “personal views and what is best for the company.” Mr. Fetter predicts that in 2014, the Affordable Care Act will deliver up to $100 million in new earnings for Tenet.

Kitty Bennett and Andrew Ross Sorkin contributed reporting.

Jeb Bush Pushing Amnesty Ahead

Posted by Joe For America on Apr 22, 2014

Another night, another GOP presidential candidate pushing Amnesty: Again it’s Jeb Bush showing some more “Act of Love” for law breakers – this time in Arizona, a border State about to throw out John McCain finally?

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Speaking at what is known as the “Davos in the Desert” event in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Monday evening, Bush said the United States needed “robust guest worker programs” and an expansion of H1-B visas for the high-tech industry,” even though the notion that there is a shortage of American high-tech workers has been called a myth. He also called for a “tough but fair path to legalized status” for all of the country’s illegal immigrants and an end to immigration quotas for countries.

Bush said that it was not an “American value to have 12-13 million people living in the shadows” and spoke about the need to protect borders and sanction companies that may hire illegal immigrants.

He asserted that the “rags to riches rate” in the country is only four percent and that the American Dream is being replaced with “stickiness at both ends,” as those born either wealthy or poor are likely to remain so while the middle class feels the squeeze.

Bush has previously called illegal immigration “an act of love” and said the issue “shouldn’t rile people up.” Establishment Republican guru Karl Rove even conceded that Jeb Bush was not artful in those remarks. At the conference, which was co-hosted by Arizona State University and GSV Advisors, Bush made no reference to those prior comments, though he has previously defended them.

With ObamaCare behind us, Amnesty is the GOP’s big concern for you and I. How long will we put up with this?


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What part of "Illegal" doesn't this moron get!!! Paid from the coffers of corporate interests of cheap labor, and loss of State Sovereignty.

All brought to you by his friends who are the same people who believe, that we can't control the border but that we need to control all American's while illegals run free:



What part of "stupid is as stupid does" will and or should get them elected, in 2016

Michelle Malkin Rips On Jeb Bush, Common Core

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7_pbHGhtXo

Michelle Malkin Shreds Jeb Bush, Common Core and ‘John Dewey/Saul Alinsky-Marinated Progressives’

Kyle Olson | May 01, 2014


Conservative author and Common Core critic Michelle Malkin is Jeb Bush’s worst nightmare.

She never misses an opportunity to skewer the former Florida governor for his enthusiastic support of Common Core.

WATCH THE VIDEO HERE!

“And you know as well as I do that before it was Common Core, it was No Child Left Behind. And before it was No Child Left Behind, it was Outcome-Based Education. And before it was OBE, it was Goals 2000 and Schools-to-Work,” Malkin told the audience attending the Hernando County (Fla.) Republican Lincoln Day Dinner.
“And who are the people behind these efforts to usurp local control and sovereignty, to trample parental rights, to invade student privacy, and to undermine basic constitutional principles? Chamber of Commerce types, Republican Party types, Jeb Bush, Mike Huckabee, the Establishment — they’re just a facade for the people who are really pulling the strings behind the scenes: the John Dewey/Saul Alinsky-marinated progressives who’ve been trying to undermine local control of education for as long as they’ve been alive and for as long as I can remember,” Malkin said.
“Fed ed. I’m tired of fed ed. And I’m fed up with people swallowing the lies of Common Core propagandists who say that it was state-led. And yet it’s Arne Duncan and Bill Gates who are the only ones blabbering about it all the time on the air-waves,” she said.
They’re the ones “blabbering” about it because they’re the ones who have the most to lose. Parents across the country are organizing and standing up against Common Core, its crazy math and its data collection of personal information about our children.
Malkin has been one of the leaders in the movement against the nationalization of the education system and she has single-handedly done more than just about anyone to help turn the tide against progressive education schemes.

http://townhall.com/columnists/kyleo...sives-n1831812

msnbc

He previously broke with the GOP's stance on illegal immigration ... now he's standing by Republicans.



Jeb Bush realigns with GOP on border crisis
The former Florida governor once said illegal immigration was often an “act of love.”
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Jeb Bush speaks at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, May 12, 2014, in New York. Photo by John Minchillo/AP

Jeb Bush puts ‘act of love’ behind him, stands with GOP on border crisis

07/24/14 12:01 PM—Updated 07/24/14 03:38 PM
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By Jane C. Timm

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is standing with Republicans on the border crisis, just months after breaking with his party on illegal immigration.
Bush, who made headlines earlier this year for saying illegal immigration was often an “act of love,” published an op-ed in Thursday’s Wall Street Journal that came out in strong support for sending the minors flooding the Texas border back to their countries of origin and changing the laws that let them enter the country.
After first slamming President Obama for his response to the crisis, Bush celebrated GOP proposals to revise a 2008 anti-trafficking law that gives additional protection to unaccompanied children who may be the victims of trafficking. That law, which Republicans say makes it difficult to expedite deportations, remains at the center of the congressional debate on the border crisis.
“He has failed to call for a change in the law, to engage across party lines or to take sufficient steps to keep more children from coming,” Bush said of the president, while promoting the “pragmatic” ideas proposed by various Republicans.
At the end of the day, however, he agrees with his party that the children should be sent home, despite the often dangerous conditions they have fled.
“Except for those deserving few who may demonstrate true cause for asylum or protection from sex trafficking, these children must be returned to their homes in Central America,” Bush wrote.
Many believe Bush will make a bid for the presidency in 2016, although the Republican hasn’t said whether or not he’ll run. If he does, however, it’s clear that immigration will be a key issue for him – just last year, the potential candidate released a book on how he’d fix the immigration system.
Bush did take it a step further than most in his party, though, advocating comprehensive immigration reform so fewer people would seek out illegal ways of entering the country.
“Finally, preventing similar crises in the future begins with making our immigration system fair and effective now. A chief reason so many people are entering through the back door, so to speak, is that the front door is shut,” he wrote.

http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/jeb...-border-crisis

If the party pushes this loser; I'm bailing ship

I' am FED Up fighting hard for the Party just to have mediocre politicians forced in front of the base telling us its the best we got

do it and I'll vote for Hitlery Clinton; I will not put up with this through another presidential cycle

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's son arrested

21-year-old charged with public intoxication, resisting arrest

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/9373195/ns...-son-arrested/

Jeb Bush's Daughter Jailed

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=91454&page=1

the whole damn family's a mess

Jeb, your alien position suggests that you also support extra rights for dug dealers, murderers, rapists. like your brother George!