McCain covered up Cindy's drug use/theft, blocked DEA investigation of her charity

[kpete]

BREAKING: McCain covered up Cindy's drug use/theft, blocked DEA investigation of her charity

Matt Stoller is all over this:

A whistleblower is coming forth against John and Cindy McCain, and the picture he is painting is not a pretty one. You've probably heard about Cindy McCain stealing prescription drugs from her charity in the 1990s. Today, Tom Gosinski, her former employee and a close friend of the McCain's, came out on the record about the entire sordid episode. And it appears that McCain used his Senate staff and resources to cover up Cindy's drug use, and potentially to prevent the Drug Enforcement Agency from investigating his wife's theft of illegal prescription drugs.

more at:
http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=8147

[WI_DEM]

1. Is this the big story that was predicted would break by a couple of Duers yesterday?

[MercutioATC]

2. Ooooh! I'm giddy!

:eyes:

[screembloodymurder]

3. Potentially.

That says it all.

[Beaverhausen]

4. this story is old. I don't think it will make much difference

http://www.azcentral.com/news/specials/mccain/articles/0301mccainbio-chapter8.html

[onenote]

5. yep. Gosinski's journal entries were published in 1994. No soap then, none now.

And this big scoop was repeated in Feb 2008. And, again, not a ripple.

http://www.taxidermy.net/forum/index.php?topic=66574.0

[rucky]

6. The obstruction part is not in that article.

that i could find.

[Beaverhausen]

7. here

The McCain camp had organized the interviews to head off a more negative story that was pending publication in the alternative weekly Phoenix New Times. That piece centered on a former American Voluntary Medical Team employee who accused Cindy McCain in a lawsuit of ordering him to conceal "improper acts" and "misrepresent facts in a judicial proceeding."

The accuser was Tom Gosinski, whom the charity had fired in 1993. He had tipped the DEA to check out Cindy's organization. He filed the lawsuit as a warning shot. His real allegation was that Cindy McCain had fired him because he "knew too much" about her drug use.

The details were in a 212-page report from the Maricopa County Attorney's Office that was about to become public when McCain arranged the interviews.

Ironically, County Attorney Rick Romley entered the fray at the request of McCain lawyer John Dowd, who alleged that Gosinski was extorting the McCains by offering to settle the case for $250,000.

By asking Romley to investigate, Dowd helped to create a public record that otherwise would not have existed.

The invitation-only interviews were not exactly a suave PR move. By playing favorites with the disclosure of the news, McCain created hard feelings among the Valley journalists who were not invited. They aggressively chased the story.

McCain refused to talk to reporters who were not invited to Cindy's private interviews.

[rucky]

8. Aha!

Well, this is fair game. Hope it sticks.