90 Pounds Of Cocaine Found On Cargo Ship Owned By Anti-Drug Senator’s Family (Senator McConnell)

[Jesus Malverde]

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/#9yiSMF1vACS7pgDf.99

[notadmblnd]

1. US Senator, Mitch McConnell(R) drug smuggler

I wonder where the ship was headed to?

[madokie]

2. I bet mitchie baby didn't know a thing about this

I also bet the bastard turned a blind eye towards this kind of criminality from his in-laws.
My question though is. Why do these dirty bastids in our congress get away with reporting a gift of between 5 and 25 million dollars, no matter where it comes from that kind of money buys influence and anyone who can't see that are blind or even worse, possibly criminals themselves.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. That story was posted here last fall.

He's still here, though.

[Jesus Malverde]

5. Still no charges...eh?

[JackInGreen]

6. That would

certainly explain his dislike for any judge picked by someone he hasn't personally vetted and approved of.