The reference in the legal brief was tantalizingly obscure, like a clue in a board game. Neil Bush, the government lawyers claimed, "is again engaged in a venture with an individual to whom he looks for assistance in financing his obligations . . . the prospect of recurrent problems does not seem remote."
Lawyers for the federal Office of Thrift Supervision made that veiled reference last month to persuade an administrative-law judge to take a tough line in reprimanding the President's 35-year-old son for his performance as a director of Denver's Silverado S&L;, which collapsed in 1988 at a cost of...