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Republican Family Values: The Bush Family Saga |
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20031126-033621-2133r
The Bush family saga
By Nicholas M. Horrock and Richard Tomkins
Published 11/26/2003 4:14 PM
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- A Texas court has been asked to order the
younger brother of President George W. Bush to give a new sample for
DNA testing in a paternity-related defamation suit, sources told United
Press International Wednesday.
The request for the new sample from Neil Bush, filed on behalf of
Sharon Bush, was slated to be heard in Houston's Harris County Civil
Court on Dec. 9.
"We require he be forced to give a sample under court supervision,"
David Berg, attorney for Sharon Bush, told United Press
International. "He voluntarily did it before we got to court but not
under court supervision. It was a good first step, but we want it under
court supervised conditions."
Sharon Bush is being sued for defamation by Robert Andrews, a business
associate of Neil Bush, who claims she defamed his 2-year-old son by
publicly saying the boy was fathered by Neil Bush.
Maria Andrews, now divorced from her husband, is currently living in
Paris with the child. Bush has said he intends to marry the woman
following his divorce from Sharon Bush last spring. It was unclear if
Neil would join her for the Thanksgiving holiday or remain in the
United States.
Neil Bush did not return UPI's calls for comment by publication time
Wednesday.
In a deposition given in the divorce case in March, a month before his
divorce from Sharon, the president's 48-year-old sibling detailed
financial relationships with firms in Taiwan and China and admitted to
having had sex on several occasions in years past with unidentified
women who simply came to his hotel door in Thailand and Hong Kong.
"It is dead on," said a source who read the leaked transcript, which
has not been made public record.
Under the divorce settlement with Sharon, Bush reportedly pays about
$1,500 per month in child support payments to Sharon and gives her
$30,000 a year in alimony for four years.
The Bushes have three children.
Sharon bought the family home, valued at $850,000, from Neil the exact
sum Andrews is suing her for.
The same day she closed on the house, Andrews sued her. In addition to
the money for questioning the child's lineage, he also asked for any
royalties she may earn from any book about the case.
Sharon had earlier been reported as saying she intended to write a tell-
all book about her marriage and the Bush family.
"We consider it (the suit) vindictive and an attempt to shut her up,"
Berg said. "You'd have to be blind not to understand the message when
they sued her on the same day that she closed on the house for the same
amount of money, an identical amount.
"They are sending a message ... It sounds like Andrews is a stalking
horse for Bush."
In 1990, Neil Bush paid a $50,000 fine and was banned from banking
activities for his role in the mismanagement of Silverado Savings and
Loan in Denver. The management of the Silverado was sued in the savings
and loan scandal by the Resolution Trust Corporation.
Neil Bush met Sharon in 1980 in New Hampshire during his father's
unsuccessful bid to capture the Republican nomination for the
presidency. They had three children together and were married 23 years.
The Andrews were married 14 years and divorced in October 2002. Neil
and Maria are reported to have met several years ago while she was
working as a volunteer for his mother, Barbara Bush.
Another area of the transcript deals with Bush's contract with one of
China's major semiconductor firms, Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing
Corp. of Shanghai. The giant conglomerate, one of mainland China's
major firms, is backed by Jiang Mianheng, the son of former Chinese
President Jiang Zemin. The contract is expected to bring Bush $2
million in stock over five years.
Brown seemed incredulous as to why Grace would retain Bush. "You have
absolutely no educational background in semiconductors do you?" he
asked in the March 4 deposition.
"That's correct, " Bush responded.
"And you have absolutely over the last 10, 15, 20 years not a lot of
demonstrable business experience that would bring about a company
investing $2 million in you, " Brown asked.
"I personally would object to the assumption that they're investing $2
million in me, " Bush answered.
Earlier this month, Taiwan's leader Chen Shui-bian denied reports that
he paid $1 million for a 30-minute meeting with Neil Bush in New York.
The two did meet, according to Taiwanese officials.
Bush signed the deal with Grace in August 2002. He said he had not
received any stock from the company. Bush said he was invited to join
Grace by Winston Wong, a co-founder of the company, the son of Wang
Yung-ching, the chairman of Taiwan's largest business group, Formosa
Plastics Corp. Bush never mentioned in the deposition that Grace had
backers from both Taiwan and the Republic of China.
Bush said that Wong was an investor in Ignite! Learning, an educational
firm based in Austin, Texas that Bush formed in 2000. The company
provides Internet-based learning programs for schools and other groups.
Sharon, in a July interview with KHOU television in Texas, said she had
never expected a divorce from her husband. "It was totally out of the
blue," she said.
She said she learned that her husband wanted to end their marriage in
an e-mail he sent her.
"Our marriage has been broken. It's loveless. And there is nothing left
to it," he said in a court deposition.
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| Title: Re: Republican Family Values: The Bush Family Saga |
27 Nov 2003 11:50:13 PM |
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"Apocalypse Now" <u909729003@spawnkill.ip-mobilphone.net> wrote
Sharon Bush is being sued for defamation by Robert Andrews,
a business associate of Neil Bush, who claims she defamed
his 2-year-old son by publicly saying the boy was fathered by
Neil Bush.
It is my understanding that he could only sue for actual monetary
damages, and only if the statements are untrue.
The man doesn't have a case, not when asking for $850K (plus
royalties from any unrelated book). It seems apparent that he really
is trying to silence the woman.
Personally, I have no faith that the courts will uphold justice in the
matter.
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