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Financial In Market An internal Securities and Exchange Commission memo from 1991 says President Bush repeatedly failed to file timely reports of his business interests and transactions before his election as Texas governor.

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Fortune Make Option Trading The SEC memo was supplied by the Center for Public Integrity, a nonpartisan group specializing in government accountability. The group published information about Bush's transactions on its Web site during Bush's presidential campaign but attracted little attention.

Science Of Financial Market Charles Lewis, founder of the Center for Public Integrity, said the memo shows the nation has a president "whose company has been under investigation by the SEC, who has been involved one way or another in controversial transactions."

Future Trading The memo said Bush sold 212,140 shares of Harken stock on June 22, 1990, for $848,560, before Harken's announcement on Aug. 20, 1990, that it had lost $23.2 million in the quarter ending June 30. The SEC said the announcement caused Harken's stock to drop by more than 20 percent, and called Bush's stock sale a "matter under inquiry."

Financial Sales Services At the time, Bush was a member of Harken's audit committee. The stock sale was reported by Bush on March 4, 1991, about 34 weeks late, the memo said. Dan Bartlett, Bush's communications director, said that was the result of a miscommunication between Bush's lawyer and the Harken counsel's office.

Commodity Trading "These types of late filings are not out of the ordinary," Bartlett said. "It would be like doing a 60 [mph] in a 55."

Financial Services Trading The White House provided the first four pages of an SEC memo from 1992 which said, "Based upon our investigation, it appears that Bush did not engage in illegal insider trading because it does not appear that he possessed material nonpublic information." Bartlett said the information about the losses at issue was available only to Harken's executive committee, of which Bush was not a member.

Online Forex Trading In addition to the tardy reporting of the stock sales, the memo raises questions about disclosures concerning three other businesses where Bush had a seat on the board:

• Financial Portfolio Trade Bush was a director of a Harken subsidiary, Tejas Power Corp., for which no directors had filed required forms, the SEC said.

• Sierra Trading Post Bush was three days late disclosing in 1984 that he was a director and stockholder of Lucky Chance Mining Co.

• Trading Financial Future SEC records showed Bush was a director of three motion picture-financing partnerships for which the required ownership forms had not been filed. The filings related to Silver Screen Management Inc., founded by Roland Betts, who was Bush's fraternity brother at Yale University and remains a close friend. The memo said it was "uncertain" whether Bush was required to file the forms.

Forex Trading Software The memo was addressed to "The Files" from three SEC lawyers and was dated April 9, 1991. The memo said Bush became a Harken director in November 1986, and said he filed late reports for four transactions totaling $1,028,935.

Trading Post The memo gave these details about the other three tardy disclosures by Bush: On April 17, 1987, 17 weeks late, he reported the acquisition of 212,152 shares in an exchange offer in November 1986. On April 22, 1987, 15 weeks late, Bush reported the exercise of options in December 1986 for $96,000. And on Oct. 23, 1989, 15 weeks late, Bush reported the exercise of options in June 1989 for $84,375.

Trading System Staff writer Kathleen Day contributed to this report.

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