Gary Nexcerpt Stock passes along a fasinating article by Christopher Caldwell in the NY Press about the sweetheart deals that made W a rich man. But the most tantalizing bit is at the end where Caldwell speculates about what the WS Journal last week called “interesting Saudi connections on the finance side” with regard to who bought who bought W’s Harken shares. Caldwell suggests “the ex-president’s ne’er-do-well son appears to have been used by the Harken board as ‘Arab bait’.”

This story is only going to get bigger.

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