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<text id=91TT1373>
<title>
June 24, 1991: American Notes:The White House
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
June 24, 1991 Thelma & Louise
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 25
American Notes
THE WHITE HOUSE
My Brother, The Middleman
</hdr><body>
<p> The yakuza is Japan's version of the Mafia, a shadowy mob
brotherhood that often operates behind a shield of what appears
to be legitimate business fronts. According to Japanese press
reports, one such business is West Tsusho, a Tokyo-based real
estate firm that has bought into two American companies with the
help of an unusually well-placed U.S. middleman: Prescott Bush
Jr., 68, the President's elder brother.
</p>
<p> Japanese police have been investigating West Tsusho, which
press reports say is an arm of a company controlled by Susumu
Ishii, onetime head of Japan's second largest crime syndicate.
Documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission show
that Bush helped West Tsusho invest heavily in two American
firms: Quantum Access, a Houston-based software company, and
Asset Management International Financing & Settlement, a New
York City-based firm.
</p>
<p> In return for his services in the Asset Management deal,
Bush reportedly received a finder's fee of $250,000 as well as
the promise of $250,000 a year for three years in consulting
fees. As West Tsusho's criminal connections only recently came
to light, Bush is unlikely to have known he was fronting for
the mob.
</p>
</body></article>
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