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NEW YORK, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Real News Project reports exclusively today that the engineer of George W. Bush's rescue from financial disaster---a man who would propel Bush on the path to elective office---has quietly moved into Hillary Clinton's inner circle of key financial backers. The engineer is longtime GOP backer Alan Quasha. His mysterious Harken Energy drew intense scrutiny from investigators and the media in the early 90's and again during Bush's first term because of its dubious financial practices and board members connected to the corrupt Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). Along with a business partner, Quasha has been forging new links with Clinton and her associates for several years. Among other things, they have raised substantial sums for her, and in 2005 they discreetly hired Clinton confidant and longtime Democratic Party money man Terry McAuliffe, providing him with a lucrative temporary perch until the Clinton campaign formally launched with McAuliffe as its chairman.
"That Hillary Clinton's campaign is involved with this particular cast of characters should give people pause," says John Moscow, a former Manhattan prosecutor. In the late 1980s and early '90s, Moscow led the investigation of the BCCI global financial empire---which included Harken board members among its prominent shareholders. "Too many of the same names from earlier troubling circumstances suggests a lack of control over who she is dealing with," says Moscow, "or a policy of dealing with anyone who can pay."
In the wake of revelations that Clinton accepted large sums of money from convicted swindler Norman Hsu, her involvement with Quasha and his associates is likely to raise new concerns over major sources of money for her presidential bid.
The full article, published in conjunction with /The Nation /magazine, can be found at http://www.realnews.org , the website of The Real News Project, an independent source for ground-breaking investigative reporting. The article's co-author, Russ Baker, founder of the Real News Project, is at work on a book about George W. Bush's rise to power and the forces behind it.
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