4 SUBPOENAS ARE SERVED IN BUSH KIN'S DRUG CASE

ORLANDO -- The Orange-Osceola state attorney's office has joined the
Orlando Police Department in the drug investigation of Noelle Bush, issuing
subpoenas to four workers at the drug-treatment center where the governor's
25-year-old daughter is staying.

But a lawyer representing the four subpoenaed employees of the Center for
Drug-Free Living said Friday that federal laws prevent the workers from
answering investigators' questions. Those laws protect the confidentiality
of clients at the center and keep nearly everything about the program secret.

The only daughter of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is the focus of a criminal
investigation that started when someone at the center called police Monday
night to report that Noelle Bush had bought crack cocaine, police said.

In a call to police dispatchers, an unidentified woman said: "One of the
women here was caught buying crack cocaine tonight. And a lot of the women
are upset because she's been caught about five times."

Later in the call, she said: "She does this all the time, and she gets out
of it because she's the governor's daughter. But we're sick of it." The
caller said she was one of the women at the center "trying to get our lives
together."

Lisa Roberson, a spokeswoman for the state attorney's office, would not
discuss the specifics of the investigation. But a lawyer for the workers,
Carlos Burruezo, said prosecutors would seek a judge's order to compel the
employees to testify.

Center officials have refused to comment. On Friday, Bush was supposed to
appear before Orange Circuit Judge Reginald Whitehead in Drug Court, a
diversionary rehabilitation program. But he canceled the biweekly status
hearing because of the criminal investigation. He rescheduled it for 2 p.m.
Sept. 27.

Orlando police asked the state attorney's office to issue subpoenas after
investigators said the employees failed to cooperate Monday night.

When Orlando police arrived at the west Orlando women's drug-treatment
residence, a worker told officers she found a "small, white rocklike
substance" in Bush's shoe. Police said it was 0.2 gram of crack cocaine.

Julia Elias, the employee who discovered the drug, completed a written
statement but later tore it up and threw it away after her supervisor,
Vilma Accison, told her to stop talking to investigators, according to a
police report.