Cindy McCain's old man, Jim Hensley, was convicted on Federal charges of a felony, a few years after WWII. He was almost convicted a second time, on similar charges, but he had some high-priced legal talent on his side -- William Rehnquist, the future Supreme Court Chief Justice.
Police investigations later tied Hensley to bookmakers and organized crime, but after a couple of decades of below-the-surface rumblings and covering up (?), the trail ended when investigative reporter Don Bolles was murdered -- by car bomb.
Jim Hensley left his 1st wife, and their daughter, Kathleen.
His will didn't leave Kathleen's family very much -- $10,000 for her, but nothing for her kids. It was as if they ceased to exist -- they only had limited contact on major holidays and birthdays -- after he met Cindy's mom, some sort of Swedish bikini team blonde...
This Kossack stumbled across a few more of the sordid details:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/19/91954/3445 July 14, 2008
...
Although Newsweek said Mrs. McCain’s family "is deeply rooted in Arizona," and that her late father, Jim Hensley, "was one of the most prominent men in the state," who was "a World War II bombardier . . . shot down over the English channel,"—in other words, a war hero just like McCain—Newsweek did not even hint of the racketeering and corruption (and murder) associated with Hensley and his patrons in his rise to power.
Newsweek said Hensley "borrowed $10,000 to start a liquor business" which became one of the largest Anheuser-Busch distributorships in the country and pointed out that the vast Hensley influence and fortune (worth $200 million) "got access to money and connections" after he divorced his ailing first wife and married his then-mistress, Cindy Hensley, and settled in Arizona where he first ran for office in 1982. What Newsweek chose not to mention is what AFP previously reported:
McCain’s father-in-law got his start as the top henchman for Kemper Marley, who, for 40 years until his death in 1990, was the undisputed political boss of Arizona, acting as the behind-the-scenes power over both the Republican and Democratic parties. But Marley was more than a politician. He was the Meyer Lansky crime syndicate’s chief Arizona operative, front man for the Bronfman family—key players in the Lansky syndicate.
but the opinions and comments that followed were very divided, ranging from:
"This needs to go viral!"
and...
"McCain deliberately married into a mob-connected family to bankroll his political career." (Cindy McCain is really Meadow Soprano!)
to...
'It's not nice, going after a candidate's family is off limits.'
The "New Republic" had a lengthy piece on John & Cindy, but it's frothy, light and fluffy "Soap Opera Digest" stuff:
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=0fd7470d-a41f-4d9e-9328-fd079b476a0aEdit update... I went back to the Kos thread and followed a disparaging link. Jerome Corsi, the red-faced old fool who wrote that horrible book about Barack, told pretty much the same story, here:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=57354
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