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...this month's installment of our series on Innovators, you'll meet out-of-the-box thinkers building a new financial order that empowers individuals. They include a former medical student who's bringing venture capital to the masses, a maverick who's creating an automated stock exchange and a tech maven who thinks you should carry smart cards instead of currency. The society these folks are fashioning may be cashless, but it will be rich beyond Goldfinger's fantasies...
...this swirled around them last Saturday, Bush and his top aides huddled at the Governor's ranch outside Waco trying to prepare for Tuesday's first debate. Spokeswoman Karen Hughes attempted to distance Lozano from Bush, saying she worked for Maverick Media and not the Governor. Bush said he would fire anyone caught "stealing from my campaign." And McKinnon, while still insisting he was "confident" of Lozano's innocence, spoke in a voice laced with uncertainty: "I don't know what to think...
...focused so intensely on Maverick Media in its investigation of the pinched Bush debate-prep materials? At first it was because Maverick's owner, Mark McKinnon, is a former Democrat who serves as Governor Bush's top media adviser. Also because Yvette lozano, the Maverick employee who was captured by a post-office surveillance camera mailing a package on the same day the videotape and briefing book were mailed, is also a former Democrat. But Bush aides believe the real reason FBI investigators have continued to focus on McKinnon, Lozano and the production house is because the briefing book that...
...assistant did so and returned the list to McKinnon, who placed it back in his debate book, which sat on a shelf in his office. Inconspicuous, the hundred or so pages were not marked in a way that hinted at the contents. Maverick kept the debate-prep video, a copy of which was included in the package to Downey, in the "tape room." "Sometimes that room's locked, sometimes it's not," says a Bush source...
...Last week Stuart Stevens, who works with McKinnon, was the final top Bush aide who had access to the debate materials to be interviewed by the FBI. Stevens, who has expressed the opinion that someone with ties to the Democratic Party broke into Maverick through the next-door office of the firm Waterworks, spent roughly two hours answering questions and pressing his theories. The FBI did some brief questioning next door but was more interested in looking at the Waterworks postage machine and taking samples from its copier. But those actions, say sources close to the case, have more...