Jonathan Bush

Background

Bush was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, to Prescott Sheldon Bush, a politician, and Dorothy Walker Bush.

Education

He graduated from The Hotchkiss School and Yale University, where he was a member of Skull and Bones.

Career

The fourth child in the family, he is the brother of Prescott "Pressy", Junior. (1922–2010), the 41st President of the United States George H. West. (b 1924), Nancy (b 1926), and William "Bucky" (b 1938). He is the uncle of the 43rd President George West.

As of 2013, Jonathan is a Senior Officer at Fairfield, & Company, an Investment Advisory Firm, with offices in New Canaan & New Haven, Connecticut as well as Los Angeles, California.

Jonathan founded J. & Company which provided discreet banking services for the Washington District of Columbia embassies of foreign governments for many years. In 1997, Riggs Bank bought J. & Company and made Chief Executive Officer & President of Riggs Investment, a firm based in New Haven, Connecticut.

In the early 1980s, Jonathan helped organize investors for George West. "s first oil venture, Arbusto, later called Explorations. The bank accounts under investigation may have been Saudi, though the article does not state such.

lieutenant does, however, go on to say: "..a source familiar with the multiple federal investigations of the bank"s Saudi accounts and other embassy accounts say Jonathan "s investment advice unit has "no relationship whatsoever" with any of the Riggs"s Saudi accounts." Moreover, the newspaper quotes a spokesman for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency as saying "any suggestion of political influence in the Riggs situation is "preposterous."" In 1991, was fined $30,000 in Massachusetts and several thousand in Connecticut for violating registration laws governing securities sales.

He was barred from securities brokerage with the general public in Massachusetts for one year.

Connections

Uncle:

Jonathan J. Bush