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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 6:56 am Post subject: Marvin Bush Employee's Mysterious Death |
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MARVIN BUSH EMPLOYEE'S MYSTERIOUS DEATH
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October 10 , 2003, 1200 PDT, (FTW) -- WASHINGTON, At around 9 PM on September 29, Fairfax County, Virginia police responded to a 911 call describing an accident. However, they soon discovered they were not dealing with a routine emergency but the mysterious death of an employee of the 47-year old brother of President George W. Bush, venture capitalist Marvin Bush. Sixty-two year old Bertha Champagne, described as a long time "baby sitter" for Marvin and Margaret Bush's two children, son Walker, 13, and daughter Marshall, 17, was found crushed to death by her own vehicle in a driveway in front of the Bush family home in the Alexandria section of Fairfax County. Champagne reportedly lived at the Bush family home.
Champagne had left the residence to retrieve something from her car, which police say had somehow been left in gear. According to the police report, the car rolled forward and pinned the woman between it and a small building next to the driveway (possibly a checkpoint built by the Secret Service when Marvin's father, George H. W. Bush, was president). The car crossed Edgehill Drive, a small street in front of the Bush compound. The vehicle then crossed a busy two-lane street, Fort Hunt Road, finally coming to rest in a wooded area across the street that adjoins the prestigious Belle Haven Country Club. No explanations have been offered as to why the vehicle did not move until Champagne was in a position to be crushed.
Champagne was pronounced dead on arrival at Inova Mount Vernon Hospital. Courtney Young, a spokesperson for the Fairfax County police was surprised when asked about the circumstances surrounding Champagne's death. She indicated the media was primarily focused on another Fairfax County story, the kidnapping and holdup of the wife of New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg on October 7. More mystifying is the fact that the Washington Post waited almost an entire week to publish the story about the baby sitter's death. The incident occurred on September 29, but the Post did not report it until October 5 and buried it on page 3 of the Metro section. Nevertheless, the Washington Post was the only media outlet to cover the story at all. Young said police still did not know the exact cause of Champagne's death.
Young said the police had posted the incident on its web site in a press release, although the report makes no mention of Marvin Bush. It reads:
A 62-year-old Alexandria area woman died after being pinned between a rolling car and a building. The crash happened on Monday, around 9 pm, near the intersection of Fort Hunt Road and Edgehill Drive. Bertha Champagne had gone outside to get something from a car in a driveway. The car, which was left in gear, began to roll forward. Champagne was pinned between the car and a small building next to the driveway. The car continued to roll down the driveway, crossed Fort Hunt Road, and came to rest in a wooded area. Champagne was taken to Inova Mount Vernon Hospital where she was pronounced dead.
The police were well aware of Marvin Bush's controversial role in serving on corporate boards for companies associated with the 911 terrorist attacks, however, they emphasized that Champagne's death was merely a quirky accident and no foul play was involved.
According to two articles in the Progressive Populist written by Margie Burns, from 1993 to 2000, Bush served on the board of Securacom (since renamed Stratesec). The chairman of the board of Stratesec is Wirt D. Walker III, a cousin of Marvin and George W. Bush. Securacom had contracts to provide security for Dulles International Airport (the airport from which American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon, originated) and the World Trade Center in New York. Securacom's backers include a number of Kuwaitis through a company called KuwAm Corp (Kuwaiti-American Corp.). Stratesec also has Saudi investors. Walker also serves as a managing director of KuwAm, which maintains offices within the Watergate complex along with Riggs Bank, on whose board Bush's uncle, Jonathan Bush, sits. Saudi Princess Haifa al Faisal, the wife of Saudi Ambassador to the US Prince Bandar, used a Riggs account to funnel money to Omar al Bayoumi and Osama Basnan, two Saudi students in California associated with two of the 911 hijackers.
Until November 2002, Bush served on the board of HCC Insurance Holdings, Inc. (formerly Houston Casualty Company), a re-insurer for the World Trade Center. Bush still serves as an adviser to the firm. Walker serves as chief executive officer of Aviation General, an aircraft company backed by KuwAm. Aviation General, formerly Commander Aircraft, brokered the sale of airplanes to the National Civil Aviation Training Organization (NCATO), located in Giza, Egypt, the hometown of lead hijacker Mohammed Atta. NCATO is the only civilian pilot training school in Egypt. NCATO has a training agreement with Embry-Riddle University in Daytona Beach, Florida, the flight school that was investigated by the FBI for possibly training at least one of the 911 hijackers.
A Houston businessman who worked closely with the Bush family over the years confided that Marvin Bush and Wirt Walker appear to have taken over the Saudi real estate investment and aircraft brokerage business once run out of Texas by Houston-based James Bath in association with Salem bin Laden, the late brother of Osama bin Laden, and Khalid bin Mahfouz. The source, who has dealt personally with the Bush family in Houston for a number of years, said there should be skepticism when looking at bizarre deaths like that of Champagne. The source speculated that Champagne might have happened upon some sensitive information the Bush family wanted kept secret.
Some observers wondered if Secret Service agents might have been able to assist Champagne when her car pinned her. According to the Secret Service in Washington, the agency only provides protection to presidential siblings if an Executive Order authorizes such action. A Secret Service spokesperson emphasized there is no current Secret Service protection for Marvin Bush. However, there remains a question why private security agents posted at the Bush compound could not have responded to Champagne's distress.
There are also questions concerning Champagne's actual place of residence. According to the Post story, Bush told police that Champagne resided at their compound, However, a phone call to the directory-listed residence of Bertha Champagne in Franconia, Virginia resulted in Mrs. Champagne's son answering the phone. He confirmed that his mother lived at the Franconia address but he was clearly uncomfortable and nervous in talking to the media about the circumstances surrounding his mother's death. _________________
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scienceplease 2 Trustworthy Freedom Fighter
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"Suicide" of former Business Partner of Neil and Jeb Bush
http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/article992277.ece
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TAMPA — One of the leading figures of the savings and loan scandal of the 1980s jumped to his death from a parking garage at Tampa International Airport last week.
Michael Wise, 64, leaped from the ninth floor of the garage in the early afternoon of April 8. The Hillsborough County Medical Examiner's Office ruled the death an apparent suicide. It's unclear why Wise jumped.
Wise came to St. Petersburg earlier this decade to get a fresh start in the mortgage business.
Wise was a former Kansas clothing salesman who became best known as the chairman of Silverado Banking in Denver, where Neil Bush (brother of former President George W. Bush and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush) was one of the directors and former Tampa Palms developer Kenneth Good was a major borrower. The institution's collapse in 1988 cost taxpayers $1 billion. |
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Marvin Bush, of course, ran the company in charge of security at the WTC
Marvin Bush: mysterious death - connections to 9/11?
October 10 , 2003, 1200 PDT, (FTW) -- By Wayne Madsen
http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/10-16-03/discussion.cgi.16.html
WASHINGTON, At around 9 PM on September 29, Fairfax County, Virginia police responded to a 911 call describing an accident. However, they soon discovered they were not dealing with a routine emergency but the mysterious death of an employee of the 47-year old brother of President George W. Bush, venture capitalist Marvin Bush.
Sixty-two year old Bertha Champagne, described as a long time "baby sitter" for Marvin and Margaret Bush's two children, son Walker, 13, and daughter Marshall, 17, was found crushed to death by her own vehicle in a driveway in front of the Bush family home in the Alexandria section of Fairfax County. Champagne reportedly lived at the Bush family home.
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Champagne had left the residence to retrieve something from her car, which police say had somehow been left in gear. According to the police report, the car rolled forward and pinned the woman between it and a small building next to the driveway (possibly a checkpoint built by the Secret Service when Marvin's father, George H. W. Bush, was president). _________________ --
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Whitehall_Bin_Men wrote: | Marvin Bush, of course, ran the company in charge of security at the WTC
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Marvin Bush, the president’s brother was on the board of directors of a company providing electronic security for the World Trade Center, Dulles International Airport and United Airlines, according to public records. The company was backed by an investment firm, the Kuwait-American Corp., also linked for years to the Bush family. The security company, formerly named Securacom and now named Stratesec, is in Sterling, Va.. Its CEO, Barry McDaniel, said the company had a "completion contract" to handle some of the security at the World Trade Center "up to the day the buildings fell down." The suite in which Marvin Bush was annually re-elected, according to public records, is located in the Watergate in space leased to the Saudi government. The company now holds shareholder meetings in space leased by the Kuwaiti government there.
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Quote: | Silverado: Neil Bush and the Savings and Loan Scandal.
By Curzon, LaDonna H.
Publication: Mortgage Banking
Date: Wednesday, January 1 1992
Silverado: Neil Bush and the Savings & Loan Scandal
Among the financial ruins heaped upon the American public by the savings and loan debacle are the remains of a few institutions that have come to symbolize the unfortunate excesses of the 1980s. One of them is the Denver-based thrift that was aptly known as Silverado Banking.
Besides the staggering $1 billion cost to taxpayers, the demise of Silverado was further exploited by the presence of Neil Bush, the president's youngest son. As a member of the board of directors, the 29-year-old Bush gave Silverado first-family connections and social prestige. In the end, the Bush name attracted national headlines and congressional investigations, and, as a result, Silverado became synonymous with the entire S&L fiasco.
Watching it all unfold was Denver Post reporter Steven Wilmsen, who was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his investigative reports on the high-flying S&L. His story, based on extensive research involving legal depositions, congressional testimony and regulatory records, documents the malfeasance that ultimately shut the institution down.
This short and entertaining book depicts a brash breed of wheeler-dealers with a penchant for "go-go banking." The setting is in the wild west of Denver - then an oil boom town. If there ever was a perfect setting for a television series, this was it - as Wilmsen notably points out. "Dynasty," it seems now, was what these financial executives wished to recreate for themselves.
Encouraged by the bravado of Silverado CEO Michael Wise, real estate tycoon Bill Walters, dubbed "the Donald Trump of Denver," and mega-developer Ken Good pumped boatloads of capital into Silverado in a complex web of real-estate-for-loan swaps that would confuse even Rubik. The bigger the deal, the better. When the oil industry unexpectedly fell on hard times in the mid-1980s, Denver was no longer on a roll. Property values plummeted. Yet, Silverado continued to make real estate loans that had risk spelled out in capital letters. It didn't matter: volume was what counted and how it appeared on the books. Desperate times called for desperate measures.
Meanwhile, Neil Bush had moved to Denver to strike out on his own with an oil exploration firm. Although his company was unable to find any oil gushers, he did strike it rich through his business associations with Walters and Good, who handed out money like it was candy. It didn't take long for Bush to gain entrance into Denver's country club set. After all, he was, as Bush himself put it, "You know, the vice president's son."
By the time Bush was invited to join Silverado's inner circle, the S&L was dodging bullets. Fueled by numerous congressional mandates deregulating the thrift industry, Silverado was able to narrowly escape financial collapse. With smoke and mirrors, the bloated institution managed to fool everyone, including the regulators.
In one chapter, Wilmsen details the infiltration of greed run amok in the accounting firm hired to audit Silverado. Basically, they were hired to look the other way and were paid handsomely for it. When a conflict of interest arose involving Bush and his bankrollers, Walters and Good, the accountants overlooked it completely. "That such a frenzy of greed and irresponsibility should have occurred, of all places, in the accounting profession is mind-boggling," writes Wilmsen. For its audit of Silverado, Coopers & Lybrand, at the end of 1990, became the first major accounting firm in the country to be penalized by the Office of Thrift Supervision.
Even as the regulators moved in, the slick operation had greased the wheels of bureaucracy. Investigative insiders speculate that a key regulator delayed action against Silverado because of a close relationship with Silverado management. Political motives, too, cannot be overlooked when one considers the political fallout on the cusp of George Bush's 1988 presidential election.
The force, whatever it was, that kept the ailing thrift afloat as long as it did, eventually went bust, as did Silverado, when regulators finally took over and closed it down on December 9, 1988. The vast amounts of money that Silverado claimed to have simply vanished into thin air, and the scandal that ensued tarnished even the White House.
In the wake of Silverado's ill-fated demise, there are lessons to be learned - lessons of business ethics, banking reforms and corporate responsibilities. It appears that the financial whiz kids of the 1980s have learned it the hard way: if you're bankrupt in ethics, you'll soon be filing for bankruptcy. |
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