Posted on 02/20/2024 3:29:27 PM PST by Twotone
Angela Chao, CEO of Foremost Group and the sister-in-law of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, died after her car went into a pond on a private ranch about 40 miles west of Austin, Texas, authorities said Friday.
Chao’s family on Wednesday announced she died in a car accident on Sunday, but did not disclose details of the incident at that time.
On Friday, the Blanco County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that on Saturday, it “responded to a possible water rescue on a private ranch located in Blanco County, TX.”
“On arrival Blanco County deputies along with Blanco County EMS and Fire recovered the body of Angela Chao from a pond on the ranch,” the statement said.
“EMS attempted emergency measures on Ms. Chao but she succumbed from being under the water,” the statement said. “Our preliminary investigation has determined this to be an unfortunate accident. The investigation is ongoing at this time,” the statement also said.
The name of the ranch, which is located in Johnson City, was not disclosed by the sheriff’s office.
Chao, a double Harvard graduate who became CEO of the dry bulk shipping company Foremost in 2018, was married to Jim Breyer, a venture capitalist from Austin who is part owner of the National Basketball Association’s Boston Celtics.
Chao previously served on the board of the Bank of China and as a director of the China State Shipbuilding Corporation.
She is the sister of Elaine Chao, who is married to McConnell, R-Ky. Chao served as Secretary of Transportation in former President Donald Trump’s administration and as Secretary of Labor in the administration of former President George W. Bush.
Blanco County EMS Chief Ben Oakley told CNBC in a prior interview that emergency personnel were called just after midnight Sunday to respond to a “water rescue” at a private property in Johnson City.
Oakley did not use the name of the victim of that rescue, citing privacy laws.
An ambulance arrived at 12:12 a.m. at the scene, where a car containing one person was “completely submerged” in a pond, estimated to be between 12 feet and 15 feet deep, Oakley said.
The woman in the car was “extricated from the vehicle,” and rescue workers tried to resuscitate her “for 43 minutes” without success, the chief said. Read more CNBC politics coverage
Oakley said there was no indication of how the car ended up in the pond.
He declined to identify who called rescue workers or who owned the property, saying that was information he could not release.
Chao’s father, James Chao, on Wednesday said her family was “heartbroken” over her death. The family did not give any information about her cause of death, other than saying it was the result of a car accident.
James Chao founded Foremost Group in 1964.
Angela Chao had held board positions on the American Bureau of Shipping Council, Harvard Business School’s Board of Dean’s Advisors and the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Chao previously was married to investment banker Bruce Wasserstein, who died in 2009, the same year they wed.
“Wikileaks’ most outrageous assertion was that CIA operatives could remotely assume control of a car to trigger a crash, offering a means, Wikipedia claims, of “nearly undetectable assassinations.””
https://www.autoblog.com/2017/03/09/cia-hack-car-wikileaks-assassination-surveillance-eavesdropping/
Moron...
Warning to Mitch...don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
I know more on how some guy died in Russia then I do this woman in Texas.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
Bank of China
Nothing to see here? Uh? Heard it was a hacked Tesla.
Midnight at the oasis, how did anyone notice the accident at this time on a private ranch? And what was she doing driving around at this hour?
LOL!
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“Wikileaks’ most outrageous assertion was that CIA operatives could remotely assume control of a car to trigger a crash, offering a means, Wikipedia claims, of “nearly undetectable assassinations.””
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I saw this demonstrated by security researchers at a DEFCON conference a few years ago. The researchers learned to hack newer Jeeps and showed that the researchers could take over similar cars remotely anywhere in the US. Live demos are the norm at DEFCON.
The attack went through the entertainment system. The Jeep spec said/says that the entertainment system console was isolated from the control networks, but the researchers observed that software fixes for the control system were delivered through a USB port on the entertainment console. So the researchers knew there had to be a network connection between the two (supposedly isolated) systems.
The researchers discovered how to access the control system via the entertainment console enabling remote control of the cars. They also demonstrated doing so remotely over the internet.
I assume a government agency such as the CIA or CCP spooks would have this capability.
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