Stories tagged with Hunt Oil
H.L. Hunt heirs battle over trust funds
By Gary Jacobson | November 12, 2007 at 1:25pm | 2 
It’s a billion-dollar family feud straight out of central casting.
The first great-grandchild of legendary Dallas oil tycoon H.L. Hunt is suing his father and other family members for alleged mismanagement of two trust funds with up to $4 billion in assets.
Legality of Hunt Oil deal “uncertain”
By Gary Jacobson | September 28, 2007 at 6:55am | 0
Hunt Oil’s controversial production-sharing deal with Kurdistan is “legally uncertain” and has “needlessly elevated tensions” between the Kurds and the central Iraqi government, a senior State Department official in Baghdad told The New York Times.
Dallas-based Hunt Oil is run by Ray Hunt, a close friend and advisor of president Bush.
Why Ray Hunt is so powerful
By Gary Jacobson | September 24, 2007 at 6:47am | 1
The first family of Dallas is not named Perot, or Cuban, or Jones or Hicks.
And it won’t be Bush when the president leaves the White House in 2009 and returns to Big D.
The first family of Dallas is Hunt.
It has been ever since Haroldson Lafayette Hunt moved his oil company to the city in the 1930s so he could be closer to his banker and good train service.
It’s even truer today because of Ray Hunt, the most powerful Hunt - and there have been a lot of them - since old H.L. While H.L. was always trying to find a U.S. president who would listen to him, his son has found one in George Bush.
