Sunday, January 25, 2004
Prince George's Journal [Md.] 2004 01 13:Court papers in his scandal-ridden divorce reveal that, among other business interests, Bush received a $2 million contract from a large Chinese-Taiwanese company called Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing.
The contract hires Bush as a consultant in return for $400,000 per year in company stock for five years. In his deposition, Bush disclaimed expertise in semiconductors but stated that he has traveled extensively in Asia.
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Grace Semiconductor has two founders, one a son of the former president of mainland China. Bush received his contract from the other founder, a Taiwanese businessman named Winston Wong (spelled WONG, pronounced the same way).
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Back in the 1990s, the Clinton White House got into trouble when Winston Wang (spelled WANG, but pronounced "wong"), a Taiwanese businessman, had coffee at the White House in June 1995 and allegedly followed up by promising a $100,000 contribution to the Democratic National Committee.
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It turns out that this is the same man.
Yes, that's right; in a sterling example of don't-they-ever-learn, Neil Mallon Bush (named after a founder of Dresser Industries, a Bush-connected company that became a subsidiary of Halliburton) entered into a contract with Winston Wang, the same man whose White House visit contributed to a political tempest.
Evidently the reason no one has noticed this connection is that the last name is now spelled, in most print reports, with an "o'' instead of an "a''.
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Winston Wang (Wong) is the son of billionaire Y. C. Wang, regarded as Taiwan's most powerful businessman, head of mega-conglomerate Formosa Plastics Company.
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Wong was also an early investor in Neil Bush's educational software company, Ignite! Learning.
Interestingly, the media ``conservatives" who devoted such attention to Charlie Trie in the 1990s never actually named either Winston Wang or Formosa Plastics.
Could there have been a reason why not? In his March 1, 2000, testimony before Congress, Charles ``Charlie" Trie, who introduced Wang to Clinton, told the House Committee on Government Reform, ``When I met Winston Wang, he told me that he had met with President Bush when he was president." .....---
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