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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 11:17 AM Jul 2015

FOX goes after Jeb, WoW-Why Doesn't Jeb Want to Talk About Lehman Bros?

Jeb Bush apparently doesn’t want people to know that he worked at Lehman Brothers, the now-defunct investment bank whose collapse led to the broader financial meltdown in 2008.

That’s the only conclusion I can come to after receiving a series of occasionally bizarre emails from his press people to what I thought was a fairly simple question about Bush’s work before he became a Republican presidential candidate.

For about seven years, Bush earned more than $14 million as an adviser to Lehman and, after its 2008 bankruptcy, Barclays, which took over Lehman. As such, he helped pitch business to clients or as he recently put it “I advised their clients on a wide range of global economic issues with a mind towards navigating government policies.”

Dig a little deeper and you will find that Bush may be downplaying his role at the firm, particularly when it mattered the most: Those turbulent months in 2008 just before Lehman filed for the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/2015/07/09/jeb/

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FOX goes after Jeb, WoW-Why Doesn't Jeb Want to Talk About Lehman Bros? (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Jul 2015 OP
So he's running around trying to get folks to invest in a sinking asset... DemocratSinceBirth Jul 2015 #1

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
1. So he's running around trying to get folks to invest in a sinking asset...
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 11:29 AM
Jul 2015

Sounds fishy and worthy of more investigation.

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