Posted on 03/09/2016 5:41:15 AM PST by jimbo123
An angry, embattled Neil Bush on Monday defended his conduct as a director of a failed Denver savings and loan as well as his acceptance of what he conceded was "an incredibly sweet deal" in the form of a $100,000 loan from a Denver investor that he did not have to repay.
President Bush's 35-year-old son, who faces a disciplinary hearing this fall before federal thrift regulators, decided this weekend to launch a one-man public relations campaign in connection with his role as a director of the defunct Silverado Savings & Loan, whose collapse is expected to cost taxpayers about $1 billion. He issued a combative eight-page response to the charges against him and began inviting reporters to his spartan office here to hear his version of the events that have made him a figure in the largest financial scandal in U.S. history.
Chewing gum and digging through stacks of papers on the office floor, Bush acknowledged in an interview Monday that he got "an incredibly sweet deal" in 1984 when Denver investor Kenneth Good lent him $100,000 and then forgave the debt.
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Ted Cruz just hired the hapless Neil Bush to be on his finance team? Ted is turning into Bush 3.
JMO...but I feel Neil Bush is in the family dog house this morning..if his mom hasn’t caught up with him yet, she soon will...
I think Neil has always been the ‘black sheep’ in the Bush Tribe..again JMO..
I knew Neil in the early 90s. He was the little kid of the family and played that act out. He was always very nice but also very ‘young’ for his age.
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