The SEC received word of Bush s trade eight month s late. Bush has said he filed the notice but that is was lost. Despite Harken s small size and poor performance in recent years, it continues to provide Bush and its other directors and executives with unusually generous pay and perquisites. Harken has been characterized by a pattern of financial deal making so burdened with debt and tangled stock swaps that its largest creditors threatened to shut the company down and oil-industry analysts have all but given up on tracking it. I want to be an analyst, not a speculator.
Harken executives say the company s practices are proper.
Select the article title above and enter payment to obtain the full article. James Baker were surrounded socially and financially by the biggest feeders at the national taxpayers' trough. A repeated pattern appears in which investigations were called off, proposed fraud charges weren't brought, and President Bush continued to pal around with investigative targets who got off scot-free. . . . Hundreds of millions of dollars in questionable loans ended up enriching the friends of George Bush, the CIA, and favorite Republican causes, among them the contras, and Jonas Savimbi's war in Angola. Texas examiners filed two criminal referrals with the Justice Department, which took no action. . . .