| Also on Baker's bank's Board: Exxon Coal & Mineral Company director Terry Kirkley; Exxon Oil and Gas Company director Forrest Hoglund; Mosbacher Energy Company Chairman Robert Mosbacher (who doubled as Bush Sr.'s Secretary of Commerce); CONOCO's chief executive officer Constantine Nicandros; Tenneco director Kenneth Reese; Oil and Gas producers Richard Moncrief and Cyrial Wagner; and Scurlock Oil Company and Ashland Oil Company director Jack Blanton. [Bob Feldman, "The Bush/Baker Oil Connection," Downtown Weekly, New York City.] All of these oil men sat on the board of Baker's family bank and helped shape US government policy, despite the fact that several years earlier, in 1986, Texas Commerce had been fined $1.9 million for not reporting cash transactions (money laundering). Then, as today, the corporate honchos who ripped off billions of dollars from small investors, trade union pension funds and retirement accounts while sending the youth of America off to kill Iraqis (and to return with Gulf War Syndrome), faced little in the way legal charges. The Democrats, like the Republicans, just went on with business as usual, while the rest of us paid the price. [For more on the Bush boys, see Stephen Pizzo, "Family Value$: The inside story of how three of the Bush boys built private fortunes by trading on their father's name, running with con men, lining their own pockets, and leaving financial ruin in their wake," Mother Jones, Sept./Oct. 1992. Also, Tim Wheeler, "The Bahrain Connection: Live skeletons in the Bush family closet," People's Weekly World, April 6, 1991; and, Jonathan Kwitny, "The Crimes of Patriots -- A True Tale of Dope, Dirty Money, and the CIA."] Back to Main Page |