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GOP Senator's Aide Admitted Trading Drugs for Sex: Report (Meth & Thad Cochran)
The Hill ^ | April 24, 2015

Posted on 04/26/2015 10:24:41 AM PDT by nickcarraway

A staffer for Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) admitted to distributing methamphetamine and another drug in exchange for sexual favors, according to a report in The Washington Post.

Customs and Border Patrol officers in Cincinnati found a package of gamma-Butyrolactone (GBL) addressed to Fred Wesley Pagan, according to a court document.

Homeland Security agents searched his house in the Brightwood neighborhood of Washington D.C., on Thursday and found a substance that tested positive for meth in plastic bags, the court document states.

The Post reports Pagan is a long-time employee of Cochran and currently serves as his office manager.

Pagan allegedly admitted he bought the GBL from China knowing it was illegal. GBL is a Schedule I controlled substance, on par with marijuana and LSD, and is purported to build muscles, reduce stress and enhance sex. It also breaks down into the party-drug GHB, which is also known as the “date-rape drug,” according to the Justice Department.

He told investigators he “intended to distribute both the GBL and methamphetamine in exchange for sexual favors,” according to the court document.

“The senator is traveling to Mississippi right now and has not seen the details included in the documents you provided,” Cochran communications director Chris Gallegos told the Post on Friday.

“Our office is in the process of consulting with Senate legal counsel.”

The 49-year-old appeared in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Friday, and a grand jury indicted him on intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine and on importing a controlled substance.

The distribution charge carries a mandatory minimum of five years in jail and no more than 40 years, while the importation charge carries a maximum of 20 years, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: cochran; gope; haleybarbour; karlrove; meth; mississippi; rino

1 posted on 04/26/2015 10:24:41 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

While physically present, Sen. Cochran, busy trying to pick the flowers off the wallpaper pattern, could not be mentally reached for comment.


2 posted on 04/26/2015 10:30:52 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: nickcarraway

You’d have to be a real loser to need to use a date-rape drug in DC. The whores are waist deep.....


3 posted on 04/26/2015 10:31:48 AM PDT by clintonh8r (ISIS IS ISlam/Christian lives matter!)
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To: nickcarraway

Might also be useful for trade with switch party votes.


4 posted on 04/26/2015 10:33:33 AM PDT by LowOiL ("Abomination" sure sounds like "ObamaNation" to me.)
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To: clintonh8r

Both Heterosexual and LGBTQ.


5 posted on 04/26/2015 10:34:37 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: nickcarraway

Haley Barbour with the assistance of Mitch McConnell engineered one of the dirtiest tricks in U.S. election history to keep the sad remnants of Thad Cochran in office.
If Mississippi voters hadn’t been swindled, this guy wouldn’t have been working in McDaniels office.


6 posted on 04/26/2015 10:40:52 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: nickcarraway

Criminal penalties should be doubled for legislatures and their staffers.


7 posted on 04/26/2015 10:44:42 AM PDT by Seruzawa (All those memories will be lost,in time, like tears in rain.)
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FReepers! Let's go!
Every donation counts!




8 posted on 04/26/2015 11:13:24 AM PDT by RedMDer (Keep Free Republic Alive with YOUR Donations!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

cochran’s vote is barbour’s vote, the vote for cloture and vote for lynch is what barbour would want, he doesn’t want an AG that would do anything to hamper obama’s illegal amnesty. POTC&HB


9 posted on 04/26/2015 11:59:21 AM PDT by duffee (Dump the Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party, joe nosef.)
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To: nickcarraway

Pagan what an appropriate last name.


10 posted on 04/26/2015 12:17:45 PM PDT by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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To: clintonh8r

neck deep if you include most members of Congress.


11 posted on 04/26/2015 12:20:47 PM PDT by glennaro
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To: nickcarraway

This is the kind of GOP that makes the GOP electable... Smh. All of them are scandal ridden scums.


12 posted on 04/26/2015 2:26:58 PM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall no)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

So where is the FR Liberal-Republican/Vote for the lesser evil contingent?


13 posted on 04/26/2015 6:43:45 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: Rides_A_Red_Horse

On another thread taking me to task for making a big deal out of approving an Attorney General nominee who testified that federal laws don’t mean a thing. #76

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3283387/posts


14 posted on 04/26/2015 6:54:11 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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