The only way Blankenship’s campaign could have landed on that number is by making extra-generous assumptions.

It’s anyone’s guess, but it’s important to remember that Colombian authorities do not appear to have charged the ship’s captain or crew. 1. Political connections are normally considered as real advantages for business people.

Review our, in an ad attacking Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Don Blankenship Releases ‘Cocaine Mitch’ Ad Explanation, choose to run as foils to the GOP establishment, a McConnell spokesman told The Fact Checker, an article in the Nation magazine from October 2014, Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends. Charges would indicate that the Colombian government identified suspects, and who they were. The ship was docked at the Colombian port city of Santa Marta and destined for the Netherlands with a shipment of coal, the magazine reported.

In an interview with Breitbart News, Schweizer refers to this same $5 million to $25 million, and nothing else, as an example of the money McConnell has received from his father-in-law.

Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends. Third, neither the Nation nor the Colombian navy reported that the cocaine was worth $7 million. Any business that can demonstrate these kinds of connections sends a very positive message as to how successful the business is and how effective it would be to work with them.”.

Indeed, Politico confirmed that Foremost Group “now appears to be engaging in a brisk period of expansion.

In West Virginia, Blankenship has been firing off attacks at McConnell, his wife and his in-laws lately. The Wall Street Journal verified the Secret Empires revelation that Elaine Chao’s sister–who is Mitch McConnell’s sister-in-law–currently sits on the board of directors of the state-owned Bank of China. — U.S. Senate primary candidate Don Blankenship (R-W.Va.), in an ad attacking Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), “Having cocaine on a family-owned ship certainly should be of interest because cocaine deaths in this country keep going up, and even though that ship, I think, headed to Europe, we still need to be aware that there are cocaine and other drugs moving on the high seas on commercial ships. “Mr. “McConnell himself has benefited because a few years ago, James Chao gave Mitch McConnell a gift between five and twenty-five million dollars that more than quadrupled his net worth overnight,” Schweizer told Breitbart. The Fact Checker found an August 2014 news release from the Colombian navy that corroborated much of the Nation’s reporting.

By signing up you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, “One of my goals as U.S. senator will be to ditch ‘Cocaine Mitch.’”, https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/c/embed/5ae274ee-4d82-11e8-85c1-9326c4511033, Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events, Share your feedback by emailing the author. They certainly didn’t charge McConnell. They didn’t charge Foremost Group or the Chaos. Before Trump’s inauguration in January 2017, it had 23 registered ships but since then has added 10 — more than a 40 percent increase in capacity — according to IHS Global ship registry information.”. In the Chaos’ interview with New China Press, shipping magnate James Chao says he traveled aboard Air Force One, talked “business” with President Trump, and is “very, very lucky” to have a special pin (which he wore on his jacket) signifying that he is a guest of the president. Perhaps it assumed that diluting the cocaine with cornstarch, caffeine or other additives would yield another $1 million. The New York Post, Politico, the Wall Street Journal, New York magazine, The Hill, and others have all confirmed that James Chao, Elaine Chao’s father and Mitch McConnell’s father-in-law, gave the Washington power couple a “gift” (that’s the way it was recorded on McConnell’s financial disclosure forms) of between $5 to $25 million in 2008.

“Mitch McConnell and his family have extensive ties to China,” the Blankenship campaign’s news release says.

As New York magazine reported on Monday, “in many of the videos James Chao brags about his daughter’s government work and contacts. Have a question about our comment policies? ‘We were talking about business.’”. McConnell is married to Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, whose family owns a New York shipping company named Foremost Group. The company was founded as Foremost Maritime Corp. by McConnell’s father-in-law, James S.C. Chao. As The Fact Checker previously reported, McConnell’s net worth appeared to surge in 2008, when he and his wife disclosed a tax-exempt money-market fund valued at between $5 million and $25 million. Senator Mitch McConnell.

Joaquin Perez, a criminal defense lawyer in Miami who specializes in international drug-trafficking cases, said it would be difficult for Colombian authorities to charge anyone in these circumstances. The New York Post, Politico, the Wall Street Journal, New York magazine, The Hill, and others have all confirmed that James Chao, Elaine Chao’s father and Mitch McConnell’s father-in-law, gave the Washington power couple a “gift” (that’s the way it was recorded on McConnell’s financial disclosure forms) of between $5 to $25 million in 2008.

Schweizer also points to the appointment of Ms. Chao’s sister, Angela Chao, to the board of state-owned Bank of China, 10 days after the 2016 election,” reported the Journal. CONFIRMED: Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao received $5 million to $25 million from her father, James Chao, whose shipping company Foremost Group does massive deals with the Chinese government. — Blankenship, in an interview on Fox News, May 2, 2018.

A photo of Elaine's father's native village in China in 1981. In general, CSSC is a sensitive, critical asset of the Chinese government and operates under a veil of privacy and secrecy.”. Ten years later, that number had increased to somewhere between $9.2 million and $36.5 million.”.

Subsequently, her parents separately relocated to Taiwan. The street price of a pure gram is roughly $150 (i.e., the equivalent of $150,000 per kilo), though again it will vary a lot.”, He added: “In practice, what you buy will probably be cheaper than that because it won’t be anything like 100 percent pure. Multiple establishment media outlets have now confirmed the accuracy of Schweizer’s reporting about McConnell and Chao’s deep financial ties to China. This was years before the drug bust in Santa Marta in 2014. “One of my goals as U.S. senator will be to ditch ‘Cocaine Mitch.’ ” He just throws it out like a slab of red meat.

In its news release, the Blankenship campaign pointed to an article in the Nation magazine from October 2014. Send us facts to check by filling out this form, Keep tabs on Trump’s promises with our Trump Promise Tracker, Sign up for The Fact Checker weekly newsletter. In the United States, “the street price varies enormously because it depends on purity, which itself varies enormously,” Tom Wainwright, a journalist who wrote “Narconomics: How to Run A Drug Cartel,” said in an email.

Claim: “One of my goals as U.S. senator will be to ditch ‘Cocaine Mitch.’” One interview with New China Press published on April 12, 2017, features the pair sitting in what appears to be the Department of Transportation, with DOT flags in view behind the interviewer. Elaine L. Chao and her husband, U.S. (The Ping May is a bulk carrier, though, so there were no containers.). As Peter Schweizer and Jacob McLeod reported, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) in-laws have ordered 10 massive cargo ships from the Chinese government since the senator’s wife Elaine Chao became Secretary of Transportation. In one video he describes talking with Trump on Air Force One. CONFIRMED: James Chao and his daughter Angela Chao sat on the board of one of the Communist Chinese government’s largest military contractors.

Relying on an interview with a coast guard official in Colombia, the Nation reported that authorities in that country had found 40 packages of cocaine, or about 90 pounds, aboard the Ping May, a bulk carrier owned by Foremost Group.

The Bank of China’s own website lists Angela Chao as a board member. There, they met again, got married and started a new life together. Spokespeople for McConnell and Foremost Group would not comment, and the Blankenship campaign did not respond to our questions. The company was implicated recently in smuggling cocaine from Colombia to Europe. There is no record of McConnell receiving any other financial windfall from his in-laws.

4. As the New York Post confirmed in its report about Secret Empires, “When Senator McConnell — who took hardline positions against China prior to his marriage — met with high-ranking Chinese officials in 1994, it was not in his capacity as senator, but via a personal invitation from the CSSC arranged by James Chao. A spokeswoman for the embassy referred us to a captain in the Colombian navy, who did not respond to our questions.

“If it was found in the captain’s room, then you can charge the captain, or in one of the crew members’ rooms,” Perez said.



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