Woo vs. Harmon - Witness Lee M. Bass

David C. Farmer, Successor-Trustee vs. Harmon

(Formerly Woo vs. Harmon & Nicholson vs. Harmon)

CV05-00030 DAE KSC

U.S. District Court For the District of Hawaii

Judges: David A. Ezra; Kevin S. Chang

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DEFENDANT’S WITNESS

LEE M. BASS

President and owner, Lee M. Bass, Inc.; Vice-Chairman of the Board and Director, The Peregrine Fund.

From Pioneer Profiles - George W. Bush’s $100,000 Club

Name: Lee Bass
Occupation: President & Owner, Lee M. Bass, Inc.
Industry: Energy & Natural Resources
Home: Fort Worth, Texas
Net Worth: $3.9 Billion (53rd in the Fortune 400)

Lee Bass manages the inherited oil assets of this now-diversified billionaire family, which is Bush’s fifth largest career patron, according to the Center for Public Integrity. When Bush’s ailing Harken Oil suspiciously won exclusive offshore drilling rights in Bahrain in ?90, the Basses bankrolled the venture.

Two of Texas’ wealthiest Pioneer families, the Basses and the Wylys), mobilized their lobbyists to kill a ‘97 bill that would have taxed investment partnerships in Texas, with the Basses threatening to move their operations to another state. Bush appointed Lee Bass chair of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), which is in hot water for selling alcohol and tobacco ads for brochures distributed to park visitors. In a controversial ‘98 move, the agency privatized wildlife by granting permits that allow landowners to trap and breed ‘wild’ deer that they can sell on the hoof to hunters who lease their land.

Yale returned the $20 million that Lee Bass gave it in ‘95 for a Western Civilization program. Bass wanted to control related faculty appointments; critics said he would use this power to exclusively promote ideas of ‘dead white European males’...

http://www.tpj.org/pioneers/lee_bass.html

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Lee Bass is expected to testify regarding his business, professional and personal relationships with The Peregrine Fund; Henry M. Paulson, Jr.; The Nature Conservancy; Maurice “Hank” Greenberg; American International Group (AIG); Bank of America; Robert Rubin; John Snow; Norman Mineta; Henry Kissinger; Goldman Sachs; Texas Parks & Wildlife Department; The Nature Conservancy; George W. Bush; Dick Cheney; Charles Wyly; Richard Rainwater; Harken Energy; Aloha Petroleum; Kamehameha Schools/Bishop Estate; McKenzie Methane; William S. Simon; Matsuo Takabuki; Henry Peters; Richard Wong; Oswald Stender; Nathan Aipa; Colleen Wong; Lyn Anzai; Louanne Kam; Marsh & McLennan; Lee Henkle; James Ahloy; Mark McConaghy; Bill Frist; Linda Lingle; Robert Kihune; Faye Watanabe Kurren; Tesoro Hawaii; Chevron-Texaco; Jeffrey Watanabe; Greg Dunn; Colbert Matsumoto, Lawrence Summers, Michael Chertoff, James B. “Jim” Nicholson, James B. Nicholson, David Farmer, Alberto Gonzales, and others to be named upon discovery.