Bush Reprimands Snake Oil Salesman

Article by HairlossTalk.com

George W. Bush and the Florida Republican Party decided Friday to return thousands of dollars in donations to a contributor with a troubled record of selling ``alternative'' medicines, including hair loss tonics...A. Glenn Braswell has made millions selling products making claims such as removing cellulite and curing baldness. He has also served federal sentences for mail fraud and perjury. Braswell, 57, gave $25,000 to George W. Bush's 1998 Texas gubernatorial campaign. Dan Bartlett, a spokesman for the Bush campaign in Austin, said the campaign sent back the money Friday as soon as it learned Braswell was a felon.

George W. Bush does not know Braswell personally, Bartlett said. Jamie Wilson, the executive director of the Florida GOP, said the party returned a $100,000 check given at a Miami fund-raiser attended by both Bush governors. Wilson said the party decided Friday it would return another $125,000 Braswell has given since 1998.

Also, prodded by a fund-raiser, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush wrote a column for magazine given to those who bought Braswell's products, The St. Petersburg Times reported Friday. The article Bush wrote was published with a picture of him and George W. Bush.

In 1983, Braswell was sentenced by a federal judge in Atlanta to three years in prison for mail fraud and perjury charges stemming from his sale of Bio-Genesis, a supposed cure for baldness, and Formula 12, a substance that was supposed to remove cellulite.

A year later, while he was still serving that sentence, he pleaded no contest to a grand theft charge stemming from a burglary arrest at a home he was renting to a former employee in Fort Lauderdale.

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