Florida Got Lehman's Help Before Run on School's Tainted Funds

'..,Lehman Brothers was the same firm that had sold the state fund $842 million of mortgage- backed debt in July-August 2007. Those securities defaulted within four months, and totaled more failing debt than any other bank sold the state, Florida records show. ``At the time, I never knew it was Lehman Brothers that actually sold us these investments,'' Sink says. Sink also was unaware that former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who incorporated Jeb Bush & Associates in February 2007, a month after completing his second term,...'