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To: tsigprofit who wrote (1645)	5/28/2003 1:26:41 PM
From: tsigprofit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

Another Bush brother, JOHN ELLIS "JEB" BUSH is now the Republican Governor of Florida, but his future was not always free from doubt. A Secret Service agent assigned to the Bush family detail told a reporter for Mother Jones, "We can't keep these [Bush] kids from associating with someone they want to be with. All we can do after warning them is to sweep these guys with metal detectors when they come around." In 1986, Camilo Padreda hired Jeb as the leasing agent for a commercial-office building that Padreda had built with $1.4 million in federal loans from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Four years prior to his association with Jeb Bush, Padreda had been accused of looting a savings-and-loan in McAllen, Texas. A federal indictment charged Padreda and his then-partner of embezzling more than $500,000 from the thrift. Padreda's partner was also charged with drug-smuggling, money-laundering and gunrunning. These taints on Padreda's character did not stop Jeb Bush from enthusiastically pursuing tenants for Padreda's HUD-financed office building. In 1989, Padreda pleaded guilty to defrauding HUD of millions of dollars during the 1980s. Miguel Recarey provided Jeb Bush's next brush with the underworld. Recarey, who reputedly carried a pistol under his jacket and kept assault rifles at his Miami estate, hired Jeb as a "real-estate consultant." Bush would never close a single real-estate deal. His real value to Recarey was to lobby U.S. Department of Health and Human Services officials for a special exemption for a Recarey health-maintenance organization. Recarey received the waiver, which allowed his HMO to carry an unusually large proportion of Medicare patients. At its height in 1986, Recarey's HMO collected more than $30 million a month in Medicare payments; in all the company received $1 billion from Medicare. A special agent of H&HS determined that Recarey had been defrauding Medicare through overcharging, false invoicing and embezzlement. Recarey exiled himself to Venezuela, and Jeb Bush went on to become Governor of the Sunshine State. During the 1998 election-campaign season a number of people provided interesting information about gubernatorial candidate Jeb Bush. They told of a woman who had been having an adulterous affair with Jeb. She supposedly possessed and had displayed photographs of Jeb in compromising sexual positions and engaged in consumption of narcotics. There are rumors ( unsubstantiated) that these items have been acquired by a nationally known organization which will release them to the news media in good time. Are you getting tired of the Bush Sleaze factor yet?