Cindy McCain and her Drug Caper-September 08, 1994

[Ichingcarpenter]

Opiate for the Mrs.
When laws are broken, somebody's got to be punished. In the case of Cindy McCain, that somebody is Tom Gosinski


You're U.S. Senator John McCain, and you've got a big problem.
Your wife, Cindy, was addicted to prescription painkillers. She stole pills from a medical-aid charity she heads and she used the names of unsuspecting employees to get prescriptions.
The public is about to find out about it.

Until now, you've managed to keep it all quiet. When Tom Gosinski, a man your wife fired, sued for wrongful termination and threatened to expose the whole sordid story, you didn't hesitate to call in the big guns.
John Dowd, the attorney who got you out of your Keating Five mess, worked on getting your wife a sweetheart deal with federal prosecutors. He also made Gosinski's lawsuit go away.

He didn't stop there.
To help maintain your reputation and discredit your wife's accuser, Dowd called Maricopa County Attorney Richard Romley and complained that Gosinski was trying to extort money. Romley, your Republican ally, promptly launched an extortion investigation. >>>>>>>snip

• Cindy McCain lied about drug treatment she claims to have undergone. Although she told reporters she went into a residential drug treatment program earlier this year, she told investigators she had treatment during 1991 and 1992. Whom did she lie to--investigators or reporters?

• If Cindy McCain did undergo treatment before 1994, as she told investigators, the senator's claim that he didn't learn of his wife's addiction until this January simply defies credibility.

• Cindy McCain and Jay Smith lied about her status with federal prosecutors. She told a Tucson reporter she had already completed a pretrial diversion program. Smith told another reporter that the case had come to "resolution." In fact, Cindy McCain hasn't even been accepted into a diversion program.

• Jay Smith misled the Arizona Republic when he said that Gosinski had, in an act of retribution, tipped federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents after failing to get a cash settlement. In fact, Gosinski was talking to the DEA 11 months before he ever filed his wrongful termination claim.

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1994-09-08/news/opiate-for-the-mrs/

[Medusa]

1. You're beating a dead horse.

the media doesn't care. And a drug addiction will never beat a sexual affair in the MSM.

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. Its still a good news article that could be e-mailed

But this one is true vs. the anti Obama smears.

[SOS]

4. Good point

Email is a tool that our side is not using to it's full potential.
This bizarre notion that Obama is a Muslim was created via right-wing email.
Our side needs to utilize this tool more effectively. I've emailed this article to 6 people already.

As to Cindy, it is outrageous that she got off scot free while a poor narcotics user gets the gulag treatment.

[Barack_America]

3. kick.