Posted on 11/09/2014 7:54:00 AM PST by MikeinMotley
A cargo ship connected to Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell was recently stopped and searched before departing from Colombia. During the search, Colombian Coast Guard agents seized roughly 90 pounds of cocaine.
The drugs were found on the Ping May, which is a vessel operated by the Foremost Maritime Corporation, a company owned by Mitch McConnell’s in-laws, the Chao family. This connection is not only relevant because of the family connection, but also because the Chao family has often made large donations to McConnell’s campaigns.
In fact, the Chao family has been funding McConnell since the late 1980s. Years later, in 1993, McConnell married Elaine Chao and secured the Chao family as one of his primary sources for investments.
A gift worth somewhere between 5 and 25 million dollars from the Chao Family made McConnel one of the richest senators in the country in 2008.
The Foremost Maritime Corporation is currently operating 16 dry bulk cargo ships, most of which are currently still in service.
What makes this case even more interesting is that McConnell is well known as a staunch prohibitionist. In 1996, McConnell sponsored “The Enhanced Marijuana Penalties Act”, a bill designed to increase the mandatory minimum sentencing for people caught with marijuana.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/90-pounds-cocaine-cargo-ship-owned-anti-drug-senators-family/#VVlpKH76WkmCGqAp.99
Fat, dirt cat.
Tea PARTY....!!
Agent of Chaos comes to mind.
or Agent of Kaos for the Get Smart fans.
Thinking big—like a George Soros frame job.
Strange this information didn’t come out before the elections.
Hmmmm. Gonna have some ‘splainin’ to do. Maybe it’s not a good idea to run for Majority Leader, Mitch.
Who else would be a good Majority Leader? Let me think...
A week too late-what happened?
Desperate attempt to tie him to smuggling being conducted by a low level employee of his wife’s family.
Maybe Mitch will talk to us in the Cone of Silence.
Pffff...they found the evidence right next to the dead body of the Easter Bunny and Bigfoot.
Oh my, a Chinese family involved in drugs? NOOOOOO!!
I simply won't believe it.
Agent 99’s side-kick was out-of-this-world beautiful! What was her name? Barbara something ...
Gee, I wonder how they knew where to look for 90 POUNDS of something on a cargo ship.
I think the post above you nailed it.
Somewhere there is a security camera video of James Carville or some other Clinton operative sneaking aboard and planting this evidence.
As much as I loathe McConnell - there is no way he had anything to do with this or had any idea. Smuggling isn’t often done by the owners of the ship!!! They’re already wealthy. It’s the crew.
The next thing you know, they’ll find a Ford Super Cargo Van packed full of illegals and tie it right back to his dirty little hands… cause ya know he owns stock in Ford!
Oh wait a minute, they don’t pull those vans over anymore…. Nevermind!
My initial thoughts, exactly.
Isn’t this the opening plot to “Clear and Present Danger?”
The street value of that much cocaine probably pays for enough fuel to move the cargo ship one foot.
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