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To: Mephisto who wrote (2423)	1/29/2002 9:19:26 PM
From: Mephisto	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15516

"Many of Enron's underhanded tactics (such as the infamous, off-book partnerships) are enshrined in law. Americans can count on the Bush administration to work assiduously to keep them enshrined. The real scandal is that Enron's relationship to government is not the exception but the rule -- just business as usual. Another homegrown example is Crescent Real Estate Equities Ltd., familiar to Houstonians as the Fort Worth company whose officials promised to build a badly needed convention center hotel here and then went back on their word. For years Crescent's principals did everything they could to help George W. Bush and put him first in the governor's mansion and then in the White House. In turn, Bush's backers at Crescent were rewarded with tax cuts and sweetheart deals involving state property and pension funds. Bush says he never spoke of these deals to his buddies and partners at Crescent, and of course he didn't have to. Bush's minions knew instinctively to play ball when the Crescent boys showed up with a bat. AlthoughBush promised repeatedly to subsidize religious faith and inject it into every sphere of American life, his cronies at Crescent are suing a Houston church to keep it from leasing city-owned quarters in Greenway Plaza. The plaintiffs allege that churchgoers are bad for business if they get too close and are orse to have around than rowdy sports fans, rock concertgoers and other denizens of Compaq Center. I'm inclined to agree, but if the big shots at Crescent are so hostile to church people, why did they back Bush? The answer might be that they (and presumably their candidate) regarded all the pious rhetoric as so much slop to be thrown to the faithful and never intended it to be taken seriously or to get in the way of big business and its profits." Above is an excerpt from the article, "The real scandal is business as usual " Houston Chronicle Jan. 27, 2002, 6:09PM By JAMES HOWARD GIBBONS Copyright 2002 Houston Chronicle chron.com

To: Mephisto who wrote (2423)	1/31/2002 4:25:33 PM
From: Mephisto	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 15516

Bush and CRESCENT (Additional Information from the Houston Chronicle article, Business as Usual see: Message 16980556 ) .................................. "Attached you will find a copy of the March 1, 1998, letter to Mr. Arthur Levitt, Chairman of the SEC, and the April 15, 1998, letter to Ms. Walker at the SEC. I am also attaching a copy of the May 28, 1998, letter to Mr. Levitt asking for his help in obtaining a copy of the last audit of MONY. You will also find a copy of a letter of clarification to Ms. Donna Garcia Davidson regarding an "Open Records Request" to Governor George W. Bush which contains an admission that he as the Governor of Texas cannot produce or cause to be produced an accurate financial statement for MONY for anytime while he has been in office. Governor Bush and his close associates and financial partners at Crescent were reported by the Houston Chronicle in early 1998 to have paid MONY $155,000,000 for real estate in Houston. Governor Bush also received substantial PAC contribution from V&E during the time they were padding their bills to MONY. It should also be noted that a V&E partner, Mr. A. Frank Smith, was on MONY's Board of Directors during the time that MONY illegally purchased much of the real estate and junk bonds previously mentioned and during the time that the financial statements were fraudulently submitted to governmental agencies." monybush.com