Bridgewater is a consultant and executive at Houston-based Interlink Merchant Bank, which has offices in New York City and Salt Lake City. The chair and co-founder of InterLink is Bush’s brother Neil. Neil is best known for sitting on the board of Silverado Banking Savings & Loan until ’88. In that year, Bush senior became president and federal regulators shut down Silverado at a taxpayer cost of $1 billion. Neil’s new business invests in energy, manufacturing and telecommunications in Asia. InterLink is a member of a group of Texas businesses that lobbies for unfettered trade with China.