🇺🇸 GHW and Merrill Lynch! Can't believe I just found this!
Sam Bush served on the BOD Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland... During WWI, he served as Chief of the Ordnance, Small Arms and Ammunition division on the War Industries Board, where wartime business ventures coupled with his connections to the Rockefeller
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George Herbert: "Walker became President of the investment firm W.A. Harriman & Co. in 1920.:
"The company's owner, Averell Harriman, is seen pictured with President Lyndon B. Johnson. At the firm, Walker used his network of international banking contacts to develop profitable investment opportunities, especially in Germany and Russia."
"George "Herbert" Walker Jr. was an original owner of the New York Mets and a successful Wall Street businessman. He tapped his connections and own deep pockets to help finance the Bush-Overby Oil Development Company."
✔️ Mary Carter's husband.
"...Bush fortune at UBC. The investment bank was a massive beneficiary of WWII, facilitating the transfer of gold, oil, steel, and coal all over the globe. The bank's assets were frozen during WWII as a result of its ties to Nazi Germany, though Prescott was never found guilty...
While at Harriman, Prescott Bush sat on the board of Dresser Industries, an oil equipment co which boomed during WWII and eventually merged with #Halliburton in the late 1990s. George H.W. Bush, Prescott's son, got his start at Dresser.
Zapata became Pennzoil! "H.W.'s first venture into oil, the Bush-Overby Oil Development Co., eventually became Pennzoil.
Bush and Overby expanded their operations to form Zapata Petroleum in 1953, which became Pennzoil after a merger ten years later." Pennzoil, $3 billion, 1999.
"Bath, who was discharged from the Texas Air National Guard along with Dubya, poured $50,000 into Arbusto Energy on behalf of Salem bin Laden, an older half-brother of Osama bin Laden. He is shown breaking ground at an Arbusto Energy site (right)."
"This move both revealed and enhanced the Bush family's connections with the Saudi elite."
"Arbusto became Spectrum 7 and Harken Energy following mergers which saved the failing firm. The investment in the Bush name paid off...
CARLYLE "During his father's presidency, George W. Bush served on the Board of Directors for the Carlyle Group. After his presidency ended, George H.W. Bush joined the global private equity investment firm as an advisor."
💥 "Herbert IV has a storied career in financial services. He was formerly a Goldman Sachs partner who became global head of Investment Management at Lehman Brothers shortly before its collapse. Currently, he is Chairman and CEO of Neuberger Berman Group..."
"Bucky" Bush, CEO of financial services holding company Bush, O'Donnell & Co, made a substantial profit from the sale of about $2 million in Engineered Support Systems stock in 2005. The defense contractor worked on behalf of the Pentagon in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
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