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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJeb’s South Korean Sugar Daddy (in case your didn't despise the Bush Crime Family enough..)
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/jebs-south-korean-sugar-daddy-119667.htmlBush gave 10 speeches for firm that reaped more than $1 billion from his brothers administration
As he amassed wealth after leaving the Florida governors office, Jeb Bush delivered 10 separate paid speeches to a South Korean metal company that won more than $1 billion in contracts from his brothers presidential administration, according to disclosures released Tuesday.
The company, Poongsan Corp., and its CEO Jin Roy Ryu, have been generous patrons of the Bush family over the years, raising about $1 million for the presidential library of Bushs father, former President George H.W. Bush, while also helping to organize trips to South Korea for Jeb Bush and his presidential relatives.
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His net worth mushroomed from $1.3 million to $19 million, according to tax returns and other documents released by Bushs presidential campaign on Tuesday. The document release which included a list of 277 speeches that paid a total of nearly $10 million seemed intended partly to highlight Bushs commitment to transparency and also to head off a damaging trickle of stories about his ties to controversial businesses.
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Poongsan arranged a 2008 trip for Jeb Bush to South Korea, where he played golf with the South Korean foreign minister. A South Korean news agency reported that the former governor was assessing the mood in the country prior to a summit between President George W. Bush and South Korean then-President Lee Myung-bak.
PMX representatives did not respond to questions about the speeches or the Bushes relationship with Poongsan or Ryu.
Overall, the company has received $1.6 billion in federal contracts, primarily from the U.S. Mint, but also from the U.S. Army.
In addition to coins, Poongsan manufactures ammunition, including land mines and cluster bombs that have run afoul of international human rights standards.
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Ryu and his wife, Helen Lho, who is the daughter of a former top Korean government official, had a home in Los Angeles and are active in American public life beyond the Bush clan. They attended the 2011 state dinner at the Obama White House honoring the South Korean president.
They were among the Korean elite, said Wilson, though he added that both Ryu, who goes by the name Roy, and his wife were educated in the U.S. and are very Americanized.
Ryu serves in leadership positions for various international trade groups, Korean business and defense associations, and U.S. nonprofits, including the secretive Trilateral Commission and a childhood-focused nonprofit started by Colin Powell, who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under George H. W. Bush and secretary of state under his son.
And BTW (from the comment section)
Samsung (Korean Company) has major production facilities in Austin, Texas...ALWAYS FOLLOW THE MONEY.
AND THIS: Jeb Bush earned more than $14 million as an adviser to Lehman.
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Now you really want to tell me that Jeb even knows who the workers who should work more hours & days are?
You really want to tell me that Jeb wants to be President for any other reason than to make more profit for his Crime Family & more likely to PROTECT THE BUSH CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE from any Corruption & RICO Laws.
Everything this Criminal Enterprise has done since the beginning of their existance has been to position themselves in places of power to protect their own skin.
From Prescott, to GHW in the CIA & Oval Offiuce, to the "selection" of GW and now here comes Jeb.
Jeb needs to be Pres in 2016 to shore up any possibility of criminal prosecution for "The Family" and allow their criminal enterprise the legal ability to move forward.
They don't give a shit about America.
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Jeb’s South Korean Sugar Daddy (in case your didn't despise the Bush Crime Family enough..) (Original Post)
misterhighwasted
Jul 2015
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blm
(113,131 posts)1. RevMoon, the Korean cult leader, was an intel crony of GHWBush since the late 60s.
Nice of Moon to help out Poppy Bush's fascist agenda by using his skills in mind control rhetoric to develop a RW media empire here in the US. Washington Times, Human Events, Frontpage, Insight, Drudge, and most every RW blog that exists today had their roots with RevMoon's propaganda empire. FOX news came along in the 90s to BROADCAST that propaganda.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)2. I was just wondering if this guy was tied in to Moon.
blm
(113,131 posts)3. Everything does. Bush-Moon alliance was strong and DEEP.
And the network developed between the two has not been toppled.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)4. As well as the mega wealth of
Mrs.Mitch McConnell's Chinese Family. And you wonder why we moved all our jobs to the Chinese Red Army. Just a modern day form of Slavery.