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IG finds misuse of office by Elaine Chao at Transportation
AP ^ | March 3 | By HOPE YEN

Posted on 03/03/2021 5:57:50 PM PST by RandFan

The Transportation Department’s watchdog asked the Justice Department to criminally investigate Elaine Chao late last year after it determined she had misused her office when she was transportation secretary under President Donald Trump but was rebuffed, according to a report released Wednesday.

The report said the Justice Department’s criminal and public integrity divisions declined in December to take up the case for criminal prosecution following the inspector general’s findings that Chao inappropriately used her staff and office for personal tasks and to promote a shipping business owned by Chao’s father and sisters. That company does extensive business with China.

“A formal investigation into potential misuses of position was warranted,” deputy inspector general Mitch Behm wrote in a letter to lawmakers.

Chao, the wife of Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, stepped down from her job early this year in the last weeks of the Trump administration, citing her disapproval over the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol by Trump’s supporters.

Chao has denied wrongdoing. In the report released Wednesday, she did not specifically respond to allegations, instead providing a September 2020 memo that argued promoting her family was an appropriate part of her official duties at the department.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chao; cocainemitch; ig; mcconnell; transportationdept; transportationig
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1 posted on 03/03/2021 5:57:50 PM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Uniparty Mitch quashed inconvenient probe.....


2 posted on 03/03/2021 5:59:39 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: RandFan

Geez, don’t the McConnell/Chows have enough money already?


3 posted on 03/03/2021 6:02:14 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: RandFan

cocaine mitch and his wife chao are owned by the ChiComs.


4 posted on 03/03/2021 6:02:27 PM PST by sheehan (TRUMP WON.)
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To: RandFan

cocaine mitch and his wife chao are owned by the ChiComs.


5 posted on 03/03/2021 6:02:27 PM PST by sheehan (TRUMP WON.)
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To: sheehan

The ties go right to the top of the CCP I believe.


6 posted on 03/03/2021 6:04:45 PM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

This is why mcconnell was out there supporting mail-in ballots. The deep state has blackmail material on everybody. Seems the only person who has not bowed to it in Trump, that is why he had to go.


7 posted on 03/03/2021 6:10:20 PM PST by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths. )
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To: RandFan

the DO”J” regards trafficking by politicians
as acceptable — and often provides the DO”J”
with disgusting (entertaining to them, apparently)
rape videos of children
which the entire department can “enjoy”
FOR YEARS (3 for Weiners, and 1 for Hunters)
with AbSOLUTELY nothing done,
except wHacking the honest Agent(s) that got them.


8 posted on 03/03/2021 6:12:21 PM PST by Diogenesis (Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum)
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To: RandFan

Purge Is The Game and Communists Are The Olympic Champions!

9 posted on 03/03/2021 6:14:14 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Joe McCarthy now that we desperately need him sober?)
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To: RandFan

Bitch the turtle better pull back into his shell.

Sum ting wong


10 posted on 03/03/2021 6:15:40 PM PST by PGalt (past peak civilization?)
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To: RandFan

The Turtle’s head slowly enters his shell.


11 posted on 03/03/2021 6:18:39 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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Oh boy..tie the noose around the turtle tight enough to keep him in line! Hey cocaine Mitch ..go woke go to liberal hell jail!
12 posted on 03/03/2021 6:18:58 PM PST by RoseofTexas
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Typical crap. Traffic ticket if a D does it and federal crime if an R does it.

What if she had a son being paid millions by a Chinese company for doing nothing??? Nothing to see here, right?

13 posted on 03/03/2021 6:19:13 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: PGalt
Bitch the turtle better pull back into his shell.

He can pull back, but cannot hide :

Track the Turtle

14 posted on 03/03/2021 6:21:24 PM PST by TheCipher (To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman. - Mark Twain)
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To: Diogenesis

If we had a honest government they’d run them all through the ringer. This was likely going to be a much larger scandal if Trump was inaugurated instead of the current clown.


15 posted on 03/03/2021 6:23:14 PM PST by It Aint Easy
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To: colorado tanker

Is her husband not got an (R) behind his name? This is just uniparty covering their pols. Nothing will come of it. If the turtle was a Den this story would have never came to light.


16 posted on 03/03/2021 6:25:08 PM PST by It Aint Easy
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To: TheCipher

😂 thanks for the link...we shouldn’t denigrate turtles with this POS.

Joe & Jill stayed on the hill to fetch sum pails of money. Joe fell down and broke his crown and you know...the thing.


17 posted on 03/03/2021 6:30:26 PM PST by PGalt (past peak civilization?)
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To: JoSixChip

Eisenhower was absolutely correct in his farewell speech warnings of the threat that the deep state is to we the people. Fast forward to 100% Metadata surveillance on everyone and every individual in this country should be ashamed and terrified. Eisenhower called it the vast military industrial complex, but the morphology squares up just about right where we are with our bureaucratic deep state. Much of the military was rolled into the state department under Clinton.


18 posted on 03/03/2021 6:31:40 PM PST by blackdog (Joe Biden, Deep State Cuckold.)
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To: RandFan

China mitch. Trump still picked her.


19 posted on 03/03/2021 6:36:32 PM PST by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: RandFan

Show me the gal, and I’ll show you the crime.


20 posted on 03/03/2021 6:38:13 PM PST by griswold3
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