Were Delay's sweat shop buddies in Saipan moving drugs too???

[Carni]

I was just googling around and found the below blog entry about Saipan/marianas islands being a major trans-shipment point for crystal meth.

Delay's buddies and Abramoff's clients...the Tan family of Tan Holding co
own all the garment sweat shops in Saipan AS WELL AS TWO SHIPPING COMPANIES AND AN AIRLINE!(I am sure that is just a coincidence right?)

The Tans gave several thousand dollars directly to the RNC and I don't know how much to Abramoff to lobby for them.


October 5, 2005

A New Battle for Saipan

Saipan, capital of the tiny Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands, has a huge problem: As the local Saipan Tribune reports, it has become a major transshipment point for crystal methamphetamine, or "ice," produced in China, the Philippines and Southeast Asia. Drug syndicates out of Hong Kong and Manila are also favoring Guam, a nearby U.S. territory, as an "ice"-packing station. Whether or not Saipan and Guam are at the center of a trans-Pacific crystal meth trading network, as the 2005 State Department Narcotics Control Strategy Report and this DEA Intelligence Brief suggest, the islands' involvement with the trade has brought home serious problems in the past few years.

Transportation improvements have allowed this small Asian island chain to integrate itself, however modestly, into the regional Asian economy in the half-century it has been a U.S. Territory. Planes and boats to the Marianas bring in Japanese tourists, whose vacations in Saipan and Tinian contribute a good chunk to the territory's prosperity. The other cargo that the ships bring in, however, is redirecting American attention to this island that the U.S. once won through war, and may have a hard time winning again.

Below are the shipping companies owned by tan Holdings

CTSI logistics
Marianas express lines
asia pacific airline

Gee--let's see? Shipping? Drugs being moved through Saipan? Hmmmm---I am sure this is just a coincidence since our fine Congressman Delay would never dirty his hands with the likes of drug kingpins right? Nah--couldn't happen!

Ooops! Here's the link to the blog
http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:jwyY32ZzChEJ:www.feer.com/tales/+Takafumi+Horie+marianas&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

[KittyWampus]

1. Guilt by association is dangerous... but this bears investigating.

I would add that investigating this kind of thing would be exceedingly risky.