Charlie Gasparino
Calls Out Jeb! on Lehman Millions
by Breitbart News 4 Jul 2015
From Charlie Gasparino writing at The Daily Beast:
Jeb Bush
says he released 33 years of tax returns this week because he wants to be the
most transparent candidate to run for president in 2016. But if that’s
really the case, why is he continuing to obfuscate some of his most lucrative
and potentially controversial business dealings he had before announcing his
candidacy, like his work as an “adviser” for investment bank Lehman Brothers?
So, if Jeb won’t tell you what Jeb exactly did while working
on Wall Street, in the interests of transparency and disclosure, I will try.
Not much is known about what Bush actually did for Lehman—the
firm that went belly-up in 2008 and sparked the wider financial crisis, and Barclays,
the bank that purchased Lehman out of
bankruptcy and continues to work out of its midtown Manhattan
headquarters. He began working for the former after his term as Florida
governor ended in 2007, and continued working for the latter until the end of
2014, when he decided to run for president.
The two banks were his biggest sources of income in recent
years: Bush earned more than $14 million working for Lehman and then Barclays,
which based on my understanding of simple math accounted for nearly half of the
$29 million he made after he left government. Yet in Tuesday’s disclosure, and
even in many of his public comments, Bush has downplayed his work for the two
banks.
“I also was hired as a senior advisor to Barclays where I
advised their clients on a wide range of global economic issues with a mind
towards navigating government policies,” he writes in an essay that accompanied
the tax returns. It is the only sentence that refers to his time at Barclays.
And he doesn’t mention Lehman at all.
Barclays
plc
Barclays
plc was a funder for the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Note: Robert E.
Diamond Jr. was the CEO for the Barclays
plc, and a director at the Atlantic Council
of the United States (think tank).
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank).
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, was the chairman for the Foundation to
Promote Open Society, and a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Harlem Children's Zone, the Aspen
Institute (think tank), and the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Michael R.
Bloomberg was a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone, is a member of the Alfalfa
Club, the founder of the Bloomberg
Family Foundation, and Diana L.
Taylor’s companion.
Jeb Bush
is a member of the Alfalfa Club, a
director at the Bloomberg Family
Foundation, an adviser for Barclays
plc, an advisory committee member for the Hispanic Leadership Network, a presidential candidate for the 2016 presidential election, and a private
equity adviser for Lehman Brothers Inc.
Hispanic
Leadership Network is an offshoot of the American Action Network.
Frederic V. Malek
is the founder & board member for the American
Action Network, a member of the Alfalfa
Club, and a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
Bloomberg
Family Foundation was a funder for the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
Diana
L. Taylor is Michael R. Bloomberg’s
companion, and was an investment banker for Lehman Brothers Inc.
Stephen
M. Wolf was the chairman, Private Equity Advisory Board for Lehman Brothers Inc., and is an honorary
trustee at the Brookings Institution (think
tank).
Richard
C. Blum is an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), a director & former chairman for the CBRE Group, Inc, married to Senator Dianne Feinstein, and was a funder for
the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton
Foundation.
Frederic V. Malek
is a director at the CBRE Group, Inc,
the founder & board member for the American
Action Network, a member of the Alfalfa
Club, and a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
Hispanic
Leadership Network is an offshoot of the American Action Network.
Jeb
Bush is an advisory committee member for the Hispanic Leadership Network, a member of the Alfalfa Club, a director at the Bloomberg Family Foundation, an adviser for Barclays plc, a presidential candidate for the 2016 presidential election, and a private equity adviser for Lehman Brothers Inc.
Dianne
Feinstein is a member of the Alfalfa
Club, married to Richard C. Blum,
and a U.S. Senate senator.
Michael R.
Bloomberg is a member of the Alfalfa
Club, the founder of the Bloomberg
Family Foundation, Diana L. Taylor’s
companion, and was a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone.
George
H.W. Bush is a member of the Alfalfa
Club, Jeb Bush’s father, a member
of the Bohemian Club, and Christopher Buckley was his
speechwriter.
Christopher
Buckley is a member of the Bohemian
Club, was George H.W. Bush’s speechwriter,
and a blogger for the Daily Beast.
IAC/InterActiveCorp
was a funder for the Daily Beast.
Chelsea V. Clinton
is a director at the IAC/InterActiveCorp,
and the vice chair for the Bill, Hillary
& Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Barclays
plc was a funder for the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Steven L. Rattner
was a director at the IAC/InterActiveCorp,
was recruited by Roger C. Altman to
work at Lehman Brothers, a trustee
at the Brookings Institution (think
tank), and is a friend of Michael R.
Bloomberg.
Michael R.
Bloomberg is a friend of Steven L.
Rattner, a member of the Alfalfa
Club, the founder of the Bloomberg
Family Foundation, Diana L. Taylor’s
companion, and was a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone.
Diana
L. Taylor is Michael R. Bloomberg’s
companion, and was an investment banker for Lehman Brothers Inc.
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