Dubai funds Neil Bush's company

Dubai funds Neil Bush's company

Posted: February 27, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern


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Investors from the United Arab Emirates helped fund
the $23 million Neil Bush raised for Ignite!, the
learning systems company that holds lucrative No Child
Left Behind Act contracts in Florida and Texas. The
"Cow" is an Ignite! portable computer designed to work
in a classroom, providing interactive instruction
aimed at improving students' scores on standardized
tests. If you loved Billy Carter and "Billy Beer,"
you're certain to love Neil Bush and the "Ignite!
Cow."

Neil Bush's frequent travels to Dubai are documented
by Datamatix, a Dubai-based information technology
company that has featured Neil Bush as a speaker. The
Datamatix website features several prominent
photographs of Neil Bush addressing a Dubai
conference, identifying Neil Bush as "the brother of
U.S. President George Bush."


Dubai's Datamatix appears to be bipartisan, as the
company's website also shows Dubai appearances of
various Democratic Party luminaries including Al Gore
(with and without a beard), Sandy Berger – the
National Security Adviser under President Clinton who
achieved fame by stuffing classified documents in his
socks – and Howard Dean, the current Democratic
National Committee chairman. The site also shows
photographs of Tipper Gore and John Sununu receiving
"Token of Appreciation" awards in Dubai from
Datamatix. Anti-Bush Internet websites have been
touting the Neil Bush connection with Dubai for
months, although the story has been largely shut out
of the mainstream media. (See Debbie Schlussel's Feb.
23, 2006, column, "Something's Rotten in Dubai.")

Many times over, Neil Bush has won the distinction of
being the "black sheep" of the Bush family. In 1988,
Neil Bush was a director of the failed Silverado
Savings and Loan, which collapsed in a scandal that
ultimately cost taxpayers an estimated $1 billion. For
his role in the savings and loan debacle, Neil Bush
was personally fined and permanently banned from any
further activities in banking. In a messy divorce
ending a 23-year marriage with Sharon Bush, the mother
of his children, Neil Bush gave a deposition in which
he admitted multiple sex romps with Oriental
prostitutes during his many "business trips" to Asia.

Reports also document Neil Bush traveling around the
ex-Soviet Union to raise money for Ignite! with the
notorious Boris Berezovsky, a Russian wheeler-dealer
who has sought asylum in London to avoid Russian
authorities who want to prosecute him for fraud. Bush
has also turned up in the Philippines and Taiwan at
the side of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the head of the
controversial Unification Church. State Department and
White House spokespersons often disavow any comment
when pressed to respond to reports of Neil Bush's
business activities. In a separate business venture
involving semiconductors, Neil Bush took investment
money from Jiang Mianheng, the son of former Chinese
President Jiang Zemin.


Neil Bush is hardly the first to trade on the name of
his president brother. We all remember Donald Nixon,
who took a $200,000 never-repaid loan from Howard
Hughes to establish a failed chain of hamburger
joints, known as "Nixonburgers." Then, there was Billy
Carter who took $200,000 from Muammar Gadhafi to lobby
Jimmy Carter to release embargoed C-130 airplanes to
Libya. Also, Roger Clinton, who spent a year in prison
for dealing cocaine, surfaced in "Pardongate" by
arguing as Clinton left the White House to get pardons
for a rogue's gallery of his clients, including
Rosario Gambino, a jailed New Jersey restaurant owner
with ties to organized crime.

As investigative reporters start digging to "follow
the money" in what is becoming known as the "Dubai
Debacle," Neil Bush is certain to find center stage
once again in what well could be also dubbed the
coming "Neil-gate" controversy.