TYT: DRUG WARRIOR Mitch McConnell TIED TO Millions In COCAINE

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Who thinks a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate would have survived this?

As we mentioned here prior to his re-election, Sen. Mitch McConnell is one of the wealthier members of Congress thanks to his wife Elaine Chao's family's shipping company and as Lee Fang reported in The Nation last month, their offshore business deals, which just happen to include smuggling a large amount of cocaine.

Mitch McConnell’s Freighted Ties to a Shadowy Shipping Company:

After drugs were found aboard the Ping May, a vessel owned by his wife’s family’s company, Colombian authorities are investigating.

Before the Ping May, a rusty cargo vessel, could disembark from the port of Santa Marta en route to the Netherlands in late August, Colombian inspectors boarded the boat and made a discovery. Hidden in the ship’s chain locker, amidst its load of coal bound for Europe, were approximately 40 kilograms, or about ninety pounds, of cocaine. A Colombian Coast Guard official told The Nation that there is an ongoing investigation.

The seizure of the narcotics shipment in the Caribbean port occurred far away from Kentucky, the state in which Senator Mitch McConnell is now facing a career-defining election. But the Republican Senate minority leader has the closest of ties to the owner of the Ping May, the vessel containing the illicit materials: the Foremost Maritime Corporation, a firm founded and owned by McConnell’s in-laws, the Chao family.

Though Foremost has played a pivotal role in McConnell’s life, bestowing the senator with most of his personal wealth and generating thousands in donations to his campaign committees, the drug bust went unnoticed in Kentucky, where every bit of McConnell-related news has generated fodder for the campaign trail. That’s because, like many international shipping companies, Chao’s firm is shrouded from public view, concealing its identity and limiting its legal liability through an array of tax shelters and foreign registrations. Registered through a limited liability company in the Marshall Islands, the Ping May flies the Liberian flag.


http://www.thenation.com/article/186689/mitch-mcconnells-freighted-ties-shadowy-shipping-company

Go read the rest if you missed it last month, which would be pretty easy to do given the fact that our corporate media spent about zero time covering this scandal. Who thinks if this was a Democrat running for the United States Senate that this story would have been ignored by the press? The Young Turks Cenk Uygur discussed McConnell's hypocrisy in the clip above when it comes to his stance on drug offenders which Fang also wrote about in his piece:

Requests for comment to the McConnell team about the Ping May cocaine incident have gone unanswered.

McConnell has positioned himself over the years as a tough on drugs politician. In 1996, McConnell was the sole sponsor of the Enhanced Marijuana Penalties Act, a bill to increase the mandatory minimum sentencing for those caught with certain amounts of marijuana. A press release noted that his bill would make “penalties for selling marijuana comparable to those for selling heroin and cocaine.” In recent weeks, McConnell has touted his role in calling for more federal money to be used for drug enforcement.

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http://crooksandliars.com/2014/11/drug-warrior-mitch-mcconnell-tied-millions


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[99th_Monkey]

1. When I heard about this, it was just a few days before Nov. 4

and I assumed that Mitch was done.

Then was stunned by the universal silence on the M$M about the incident, clear up
to the election ... NOTHING.

.. well except for places like TYT, Raw Story, Ring of Fire, et. al.

If this had been a Dem, let's say Al Franken, or Sheldon Whitehouse, or pretty much ANY one
with a "D" after their name, they would have been toast.

It was interesting to see how predictable the M$M is in it's blatant favoritism for the ReThuglican Party.

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3. We're In Lot Of Trouble!.....

My, my....the writer of this scene had a real-working crystal ball way back in 1976......so much truth, its scary!

[billhicks76]

8. Are You Kidding?

Bush Sr and the Contras were shopping cocaine here. Anyone who dares label that a conspiracy theory might as well just pretend they live in Leave It To Beaver fantasy land.

[truedelphi]

10. Ye gawds! That explains what the "You will all be dead from Ebola soon" media hysteria

Was designed to divert us us from knowing about!

I'd been wondering why before the election, Ebola was the key news story every day for three weeks, and then right after the re-election of Mitch (Turtle face)" McConnell, Ebola went back to being a page 18 item.

[GGJohn]

12. From knowing about what?

Knowing that someone smuggled coke aboard a ship that turtle's wife's family owned?
How does that implicate the turtle?

[99th_Monkey]

14. You mean "smuggled" don't you?

Oopsie! tons of coke just sort of magically "shows up" neatly stacked on the
main deck of that ship, but the owners "know nothing".

Right. In a pigs eye.

[GGJohn]

15. I did say smuggled.

No, 90 lbs, not tons, lbs, of coke didn't just magically show up neatly stacked on the main deck, the coke wasn't even on the main deck, it was located in the anchor chain locker, and the owner more than likely didn't know about it, it was probably smuggled aboard by a crew member.

So tell us how that implicates the turtle?

[99th_Monkey]

16. It apparently does not "implicate" the Turtle

But I have a strong hunch if the Turtle had a "D" after his name,
if would have been headline news for three days on M$M.

[GGJohn]

17. Well, I can't argue with that.

[99th_Monkey]

18. So now what? Is an investigation underway? Who are the "suspects"? Who conducts investigation?

None of the articles I could find addressed these^questions.

Don't you think that's a little odd?

[GGJohn]

19. Colombian authorities are doing the investigation, probably in conjunction with the DEA,

who are active in that country.

[99th_Monkey]

20. Yes, thanks.... and I found this as well..

"The Nation spoke to Luis Gonzales, an official with the Colombian Coast Guard in Santa Marta, who told us that the Ping May’s crew were questioned as part of an ongoing investigation, but that no charges have yet been filed. His team found the cocaine in forty separate packages."
http://www.thenation.com/article/186689/mitch-mcconnells-freighted-ties-shadowy-shipping-company

[GGJohn]

21. Interesting.

Thanks for the link.

[Kalidurga]

2. ITOKIYAR

There should be a forum for this kind of thing. I bet it would be moving fast. Nothing they do these days shocks me much.

[napi21]

4. I NEVER defend the turtle, but i this case, we need to wait for the investigation.

Finding drugs aboard a ship only means that SOMEONE tried to smuggle them from point A to point B. It could have been a crew member, it could have been anyone. Even I can't blame the turtle without some proof of a link.

[C Moon]

7. Agreed. Sadly.

[GGJohn]

5. There's zero proof that the turtle is connected to these drugs,

it could very well be a crewman who smuggled the drugs aboard to sell in the US.

I find myself, much to my chagrin, actually defending this asshat.

[billhicks76]

9. Very True

Anyone in that ship could put that amount in a locker in a duffel bag. The real crime is that a couple CIA chartered planes involved in rendition about 8 years ago had 1000s if kilos on them went they crashed in Central America.

[FBaggins]

6. Breaking news... Kevin Bacon also tied to same crime

Must have been a slow news day

[linuxman]

11. So let me get this straight...

Someone (crew, owner, worker, fairy godmother) put coke on a huge ass ship owned by McConnell's wife's family. Cocaine empire uncovered!

Oh yeah, this should be a huge issue for him.

This isn't even intelligent enough to pass for a conspiracy theory.