Education Department Inspector General Inquiry Set Into Purchases From Bush Brother Neil's Firm

Source: New York Times

By MARILYN W. THOMPSON
Published: November 7, 2007

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 — The inspector general of the Department of Education has said he will examine whether federal money was inappropriately used by three states to buy educational products from a company owned by Neil Bush, the president’s brother.

John P. Higgins Jr., the inspector general, said he would review the matter after a group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, detailed at least $1 million in spending from the No Child Left Behind program by school districts in Texas, Florida and Nevada to buy products made by Mr. Bush’s company, Ignite Learning of Austin, Tex. Mr. Higgins stated his plans in a letter to the group sent last week.

Members of the group and other critics in Texas contend that school districts are buying Ignite’s signature product, the Curriculum on Wheels, because of political considerations. The product, they said, does not meet standards for financing under the No Child Left Behind Act, which allocates federal money to help students raise their achievement levels, particularly in elementary school reading.

Ignite, founded by Neil Bush in 1999, includes as investors his parents, former President George H. W. Bush and his wife, Barbara. Company officials say that about 100 school districts use the Curriculum on Wheels, known as the Cow, which is a portable classroom with software to teach middle-school social studies, science and math. The units cost about $3,800 each and require about $1,000 a year in maintenance....

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/washington/07neil.html

as a catastrophe contribution . . . so she could also get a tax break.

Their greed has absolutely no end.

have a source you could point me to? Much appreciated.

:toast:

Friggin' cash "COW" huh, Neil? WASN'T IT ENOUGH TO DRAIN THE US TREASURY COFFERS TO COVER YOUR THIEVING SAVINGS AND LOAN DEBACLE?

Hope someone is going to treat this shabby scam of his with the seriousness it deserves. What a ####ing
national embarrassment. It's a pity he's costing the taxpayers so much. AGAIN.

You can't keep these parasites away. They'll probably be there nearly forever, until they fall over, dying from their excesses.

If it isn't one scam, it's another.

Sucking on the government teat....

"Tax money exists for the benefit of the elite republicon fat cat homelander class, so you noisy proles can just shut up and sit down."

- Neil "Silverado" Bush

The first thing that came to mind was this "donation"....


http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/3742329.html

Former first lady Barbara Bush donated an undisclosed amount of money to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund with specific instructions that the money be spent with an educational software company owned by her son Neil....


In February 2004, the Houston school board unanimously agreed to accept $115,000 in charitable donations from businesses and individuals who insisted the money be spent on Ignite. The money covered half the bill for the software, which cost $10,000 per school....


Last year, Neil Bush reportedly toured former Soviet Union countries promoting Ignite with Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky.

According to the Times of London, Berezovsky, a former Kremlin insider now living in Britain, is wanted on criminal charges in Moscow accusing him of seeking to stage a coup against President Vladimir Putin.

to Neil Bush, that is.

put this info. out over 8 months ago - finally getting some well-deserved traction.
Would also like to see attention paid to his deals in India where he is making megabucks off outsourcing our jobs...


And, if we could also get some traction on the Berlusconi/Bush new helicopter fleet deal that was rammed through in one day....amongst a million and one other things this GD admin. has been doing behind our backs..

I'm getting the feeling that these guys don't operate with the expectation that they'll get away without an investigation. The first thing they plan is the assurance that their profit will exceed the cost of defending themselves.

Just follow the money and you can find a bush stealing or scamming.

Jeb & partners buy real estate in Florida awhile back ... then they would declare
bankruptcy and then buy the property again from the banks for dimes on the
dollar.

W had his Arbusto energy company and insider deals.

The shit costs $3,800 with a $1,000 per year upkeep?

From Wiki

"The president knows his brother will always do the right thing," press secretary Ari Fleischer said."

He's an effing LOSER extrordinaire and the biggest chump next to W --- when he went to college the only reason he passed was because he was an effing BU$H.

The Day The Nazi Died
Chumbawamba

we're taught that after the war
the nazis vanished without a trace
but battalions of fascists
still dream of a master race
the history books they tell of their defeat in 45
why did they all come out of the woodwork
on the day the nazi died

they say the prisoner of spandau
was a symbol of defeat
whilst hess remained imprisoned
then the fascists they were beat
so the promise of an aryan world would never materialize
so why did they all come out of the woodwork
on the day the nazi died

the world is ridden by maggots
the maggots are getting fat
they're making a tasty meal
of all the bosses and bureaucrats
they're taking over the board rooms
and they're fat and full of pride
and they all came out of the woodwork
on the day the nazi died

so if you meet with these historians
i'll tell you what to say
tell them that the nazis never really went away
they're out there burning houses down
and they're peddling racist lies
and we'll never rest again
until every nazi dies

Visit the First Church of Chumbawamba web site

What a coincidence!

Inquiry Set Into Purchases From Bush Brother’s Firm



Luis M. Alvarez/Associated Press
Ignite Learning is owned by Neil Bush, the president’s brother.


By MARILYN W. THOMPSON
Published: November 7, 2007






Yeah, right.




Jeb!'s Florida was a LARGE beneficiary of Reading First. Isn't that nice.....






More about Neil's *funding*:

Dubai funds Neil Bush's company



And more, for your reading pleasure and horror, from Octafish, from September, 2006:

Know your BFEE: Neil Bush

Dear God in heaven, say it ain't so!!!! :sarcasm:


Note to Higgins: stay out of any small planes for the foreseeable future. Motel rooms too.

More Corruption //w Geo and his Family!!

Georgie doesn't do anything his crime family can't profit from. Here's hoping the review doesn't conclude that "the matter was fully investigated and there's nothing to see here... move along."

Source: NY Times


By MARILYN W. THOMPSON
Published: November 7, 2007
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 — The inspector general of the Department of Education has said he will examine whether federal money was inappropriately used by three states to buy educational products from a company owned by Neil Bush, the president’s brother.

John P. Higgins Jr., the inspector general, said he would review the matter after a group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, detailed at least $1 million in spending from the No Child Left Behind program by school districts in Texas, Florida and Nevada to buy products made by Mr. Bush’s company, Ignite Learning of Austin, Tex. Mr. Higgins stated his plans in a letter to the group sent last week.

Members of the group and other critics in Texas contend that school districts are buying Ignite’s signature product, the Curriculum on Wheels, because of political considerations. The product, they said, does not meet standards for financing under the No Child Left Behind Act, which allocates federal money to help students raise their achievement levels, particularly in elementary school reading.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/washington/07neil.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

...and fuel oil....

Neil Bush I mean.

The American middle-class tax payer.
Who got away with murder as usual, the BFEE and the Cornys.

HAS NEIL BUSH BEEN A BAGMAN FOR THE BUSH CLAN? OR JUST A CROOKED INDEPENDENT OPERATOR?

I'm trying to remember which Bush brother was the bank-robber. It was Neil, wasn't it? Let's see... Google... "Bush" plus "Silverado"... Yes indeed. It took me right to a Washington Post story from 2003 entitled The Relatively Charmed Life Of Neil Bush-- Despite Silverado and Voodoo, Fortune Still Smiles on the President's Brother. Oh, I had forgotten he's also a sleazy pervert.

http://www.downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/

from the main page at http://www.ignitelearning.com/:

"Our curriculum features engagint media and print activities..."

Bless.

Source: The Huffington Post

WASHINGTON — The Education Department's inspector general says he will review whether federal money is inappropriately being spent on programs by a company founded by Neil Bush, the president's brother.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a Washington-based watchdog group, called for the inquiry and released a letter this week from the department's inspector general, John Higgins Jr.

In it, Higgins said he would ask an assistant to examine the group's complaint.

The group contends school districts inappropriately are using federal dollars for Ignite! Learning Inc. programs. It says there is no proof the company's products are effective and claims the schools are using the products due to political considerations.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20071107/neil-bush-company/

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Didn't this company come under fire during Katrina?

Neil is a worthless POS. I know. I saw what happened to Silverado here in Denver. But at least he hasn't killed untold numbers of people like his equally dumb brother.

http://www.who2.com/neilmallonbush.html

Neil Mallon Bush
Political Relative
Neil Mallon Bush is the third son of George and Barbara Bush and the younger brother of president George W. Bush. Neil Bush is best known for his business failures -- particularly the collapse of Colorado's Silverado Savings and Loan, of which he was a director. The bank failed in 1988, costing the federal government $1 billion and becoming a much-publicized part of the savings and loan crisis of the late 1980s.

Extra credit: Bush and his wife Sharon were married in July 1980 and filed for divorce in August 2002... They have three children, including model Lauren Bush... Neil Bush is no relation to the popular evangelist Neil Bush.

Bush appears with his brother Jeb in our loop on the Bush Clan.

And of course a brave public defender of Uncle George's war policies, while exercising his Bush family God given right to party till he pukes rather than serve in the military himself.

Aren't they just a great family to rule over the rest of us? I give you Pierce Bush, speaking out in favor of Uncle George's war.



And of course, here's a direct quote: "I think us Bush grandchildren have a good idea of what it means to serve others." May as well give him the keys to the White House for 2032 right now.

Ethical government? Maybe in 2009, certainly not before!!!!!!!!!!