Judge in Neil Bush Case Doesn’t Relish Spotlight
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This one is going to be a pain,” predicted Daniel J. Davidson, the administrative law judge who will preside over a public hearing beginning here Tuesday in the savings and loan case involving Neil Bush, the President’s son. ”This one is going to be a pain,” predicted Daniel J. Davidson, the administrative law judge who will preside over a public hearing beginning here Tuesday in the savings and loan case involving Neil Bush, the President’s son. Mr. Davidson, who is 56 years old, said in an interview last week that he did not relish the attention that the hearing is expected to attract. ”It’s a political football,” he added, ”and I don’t get involved in politics.” He has even given up reading news accounts of the charges brought by the Office of Thrift Supervision and the statements from the Bush side. Because the case involves the President’s son, it has received an unusual degree of public scrutiny, heightening awareness of the scope of the savings and loan crisis and intensifying the partisan debate over who is to blame. Disclosure Called Inadequate Federal regulators have brought conflict-of-interest charges against Mr. Bush, contending that he failed to adequately disclose his business relationships with two borrowers at the Silverado Banking, Savings and Loan Association at the time when he was a director of the savings institution. The borrowers’ unpaid loans contributed to the $1 billion failure of the Denver savings institution. More : query.nytimes.com |