Neil Bush’s Company Said to Be Under Investigation

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Guest blogged by Jon Ponder, Pensito Review.

We’ll believe it when we see it:

The Education Department’s inspector general [IG] 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 [CREW], 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.

CREW contends that the educational programs distributed by Ignite!, Neil Bush’s company, are worthless, and that school districts who spend federal dollars on the programs are wasting taxpayers’ money.

Ignite! president Ken Leonard said that that his company had not been contacted by anyone from the Education Dept. about the matter:

“Ignite! Learning has no knowledge of any customer that has procured our curriculum solutions through means which are other than completely ethical and in compliance with the typical guidelines of their various funding sources,” Leonard said.

The program in question is “Curriculum on Wheels,” which includes software for teaching math, social studies and science. Each program costs $3,800 each, not including subscription fees, according to the Associated Press.

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    Mar said on 11/8/2007 @ 1:41pm PT: [Permalink]

    If my memory serves me correctly, after Katrina, Momma Bush donated around $200,000 to the relief effort, however, it came with the stipulation that the money was to be used to purchase educational programs from her sons company to help the schools get back up and running.

    What a first family you have there…..they should ALL be rounded up and shipped of to a desert island someplace…!!

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    Linda said on 11/8/2007 @ 8:54pm PT: [Permalink]

    I recall an interview YEARS ago in (I think) LHJ with Barbara Bush, in which she responded to an inquiry into the questionable business practices of her sons by saying (paraphrased): “They’re just doing what they have to do to feed their families.”

    I wish I could find that interview today. It was before the internet.

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    Mary said on 11/10/2007 @ 8:27pm PT: [Permalink]

    Asian sex tourist Neil needs the money so he leaves no child hooker’s behind alone. My ex boyfriend ran into married Neil at the White House “disco” CHILD brothel in Bangkok in 1993. I hope he goes to prison for pedophilia.

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