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Bush Financial Disclosure 1993 Governor
An annual disclosure report detailing earned and investment income, assets, financial transactions, liabilities, outside reimbursements, gifts and honoraria, positions held outside government, and agreements, arrangements and contracts.
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Bush Financial Disclosure 1994 Governor
An annual disclosure report detailing earned and investment income, assets, financial transactions, liabilities, outside reimbursements, gifts and honoraria, positions held outside government, and agreements, arrangements and contracts.
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Bush Financial Disclosure 1995 Governor
An annual disclosure report detailing earned and investment income, assets, financial transactions, liabilities, outside reimbursements, gifts and honoraria, positions held outside government, and agreements, arrangements and contracts.
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Bush Financial Disclosure 1996 Governor
An annual disclosure report detailing earned and investment income, assets, financial transactions, liabilities, outside reimbursements, gifts and honoraria, positions held outside government, and agreements, arrangements and contracts.
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Bush Financial Disclosure 1997 Governor
An annual disclosure report detailing earned and investment income, assets, financial transactions, liabilities, outside reimbursements, gifts and honoraria, positions held outside government, and agreements, arrangements and contracts.
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Bush Financial Disclosure 1998 Governor
An annual disclosure report detailing earned and investment income, assets, financial transactions, liabilities, outside reimbursements, gifts and honoraria, positions held outside government, and agreements, arrangements and contracts.
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Bush Financial Disclosure 1999 Governor
An annual disclosure report detailing earned and investment income, assets, financial transactions, liabilities, outside reimbursements, gifts and honoraria, positions held outside government, and agreements, arrangements and contracts.
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Bush Financial Disclosure 1999 President
An annual disclosure report detailing earned and investment income, assets, financial transactions, liabilities, outside reimbursements, gifts and honoraria, positions held outside government, and agreements, arrangements and contracts.
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Bush Financial Disclosure 1999 President - second copy
An annual disclosure report detailing earned and investment income, assets, financial transactions, liabilities, outside reimbursements, gifts and honoraria, positions held outside government, and agreements, arrangements and contracts.
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Bush Financial Disclosure 1998 President
An annual disclosure report detailing earned and investment income, assets, financial transactions, liabilities, outside reimbursements, gifts and honoraria, positions held outside government, and agreements, arrangements and contracts.
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Bush Financial Disclosure 2000 President
An annual disclosure report detailing earned and investment income, assets, financial transactions, liabilities, outside reimbursements, gifts and honoraria, positions held outside government, and agreements, arrangements and contracts.
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Bush Financial Disclosure 2001 President
An annual disclosure report detailing earned and investment income, assets, financial transactions, liabilities, outside reimbursements, gifts and honoraria, positions held outside government, and agreements, arrangements and contracts.
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Bush Financial Disclosure 2002 President
An annual disclosure report detailing earned and investment income, assets, financial transactions, liabilities, outside reimbursements, gifts and honoraria, positions held outside government, and agreements, arrangements and contracts.
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Public Common Stock Offering presented to the board of directors, March 14, 1990.
"In working and planning toward the public offering which will be priced based on the market price for the Company's common stock established on or about Closing, it is appropriate for the Company to take reasonable steps and measures to avoid fluctuations in the market price," the document notes. Among those steps: "Exercise caution regarding insider and related party transactions."
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General Resolutions presented to the board of directors, March 14, 1990.
Among the resolutions were various personnel and financial items, including one requesting approval of the sale of IMR's stake in Aloha to Advance Petroleum Marketing. "IMR has requested the Company's consent to this sale which will include an assumption and restructuring of the $11,000,000 seven year promissory note from IMR to Harken." The terms of the deal are summarized, among them: "IMR will guarantee payment of the restructured note."
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April 30, 1990 Letter to the Board of Directors from Faulkner.
Cover letter sent with the companies February 1990 financial statements. Faulkner wrote, "Harken's February consolidated balance sheet does not reflect the reclassifications of the major shareholders' notes to equity or the reclassification of the IMR note to other assets based upon its March sale to Advance."
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May 8, 1990 Minutes of a special meeting of the executive committee
(Bush was not a member of the executive committee). The committee decided to abandon a plan to raise capital through a public offering of Harken stock. Instead, the committee favored a rights offering for two of Harken's subsidiaries, in effect splitting the company into three separate public companies with their own management and boards of directors.
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July 13, 1990 Letter to the Board of Directors from Faulkner.
Updates the board on recent developments. "The Special Committee, Chaired by George Bush has received positive response from Smith Barney with regard to the fairness of the 'major Shareholder' transactions," Faulkner wrote. He also notes of the Aloha Petroleum deal, "Given the finalization of certain outstanding issues, this transaction holds significant benefit to HMC in that it provides cash during a much needed time in the Company's history."
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Minutes of the Dec. 6, 1989 board meeting
The board was briefed by Monte Swetnam, president of the Harken Exploration Company and the company's point man on the Bahrain deal. The board discussed the "foreign opportunity" and then unanimously approved finalizing a formal agreement with the government of Bahrain.
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April 10, 1991 SEC Memorandum
Written by SEC investigators Herbert F. Janick 3d, Lewis J. Mendelson, and James B. Adelman for the SEC's files, the memorandum notes that Bush was late reporting his Harken stock sales. "Bush's Forms 4 [disclosing the sale of stock by an insider] were filed from 15 to 34 weeks late…"
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April 16, 1991 Fax to Harken Energy
Written by Hebert Janick of the SEC's Division of Enforcement, the fax requests a chronology of events leading up to Harken's public announcement of a $23.2 million loss on August 20, 1990.
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May 12, 1991 Harken Energy Chronology
Prepared by Harken Energy at the request of the SEC, the document describes "the events and circumstances leading up to the release of Harken's earnings for the period April 1, 1990 through June 30, 1990 …"
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July 7, 1991 SEC Office of Economic Analysis Report
Written by Lisa Meulbroek for Janick, Mendelson, Adelman, and Paul Gerlach, the report analyzes the effect of Harken's Aug. 20, 1990 disclosure of its $23.2 million loss and the subsequent effect on the company's share price.
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August 21, 1991 SEC Memorandum
Written by Janick, Paul Gerlach, and Adelman and addressed to Bruce Hiler, it traces the circumstances of Bush's sale of Harken stock. "The staff's investigation indicates that there is insufficient evidence to establish three necessary aspects of a possible insider trading case."
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March 27, 1992 SEC Memorandum
Written by Janick for the file, this memorandum suggests that Bush was unaware of the magnitude of the impending loss at the time he sold his stock. "The vast majority of the [second quarter] loss was unknown to management, let alone Bush." It also notes that the Audit Committee, of which Bush was a member, was not privy to much of the financial information about the company.
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April 20, 1990 Letter
From Mikel D. Faulkner, President of Harken Energy, to the board of directors. The letter notes that new conditions on a loan Harken sought "greatly intensifies our current liquidity problem and mandates the infusion of equity into the company."
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April 12, 1991 Letter
From Herbert Janick, assistant director of the SEC Enforcement Division, to George W. Bush. The letter requests, "Copies of all Forms 3, 4 and 144, cover letters and attachments thereto that were transmitted by you, or on your behalf, to the Commission during the period September 1, 1986 through the present."
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June 21, 1991 Fax
From Herbert Janick to Joseph A. Cialone 2nd, a Baker & Botts attorney who represented both George W. Bush and Harken Energy. "We appreciate Mr. Bush’s willingness to cooperate in the staff’s inquiry," Janick wrote in the first paragraph. The fax requests that Bush "voluntarily provide" any documents in his possession received from Jan. 1, 1990 to June 30, 1990 related to, among other things, "unusual charges" stemming from the Aloha transaction.
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July 17, 1991, SEC Memorandum
From Herbert Janick and Paul Gerlach of the Enforcement Division, the memorandum notes "Harken has asserted attorney-client privilege and refused to produce documents concerning its policies covering the purchase, sale or ownership of Harken securities by officers or directors. Bush has produced a small amount of additional documents which provide little insight as to what Harken nonpublic information he knew and when he knew it."
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July 25, 1991 Fax
From Herbert Janick to Joseph A. Cialone 2nd, a Baker & Botts attorney who represented both George W. Bush and Harken Energy. The letter describes the material that the SEC had requested that Bush and Harken "voluntarily provide."
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Form 10K, 1989
It includes information on the Aloha transaction and the loans George W. Bush received from the company.
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2001 Tax Return
Personal Tax Return filed with IRS (Form 1040). Given voluntarily to the Center by the Bush Campaign.
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