Every state has their prison filled with young men and women that are guilty of what Cindy McCain did, but the Christian voters that condemn those in prison, they can hardly wait for Cindy to move to the big White House............such hypocrisy!!
John McCain's powerful Washington, DC, lawyer, who secured a slap on the wrist for the Arizona Senator following the Keating Five scandal, was in close contact with federal investigators probing Cindy McCain's prescription drug abuse, throughout their nearly yearlong investigation, according to a new report Friday.
Although there was little doubt that McCain was misusing a medical-aid charity she ran in the early 1990s to obtain massive quantities of narcotic painkillers to feed her addiction, the Drug Enforcement Agency filed no federal charges against her. Instead, she was able to cut a deal that let her off the hook in exchange for completing a brief drug aversion program.
There is perhaps no one who can claim more credit for this auspicious outcome than John Dowd, an attorney with substantial clout in the nation's capital who came to McCain's aid after a former employee began telling the DEA what he knew about her drug problem.
A few months before Tom Gosinski, who worked for McCain's American Voluntary Medical Team in the early 1990s, came forward to share his observations on McCain's prescription drug abuse with RAW STORY and others, he had been talking to the Washington Post, which published its own lengthy investigation Friday into the would-be first lady's struggles with Vicodin and Percocet.
The Post tracked down John Max Johnson, a former doctor for the charity who wrote prescriptions in other AVMT employees' names that ended up supplying McCain's personal stash.
The employees did not know their names were being used. And under DEA regulations, Johnson was supposed to use a form to notify federal officials that he was ordering the narcotics for the charity. It is illegal for an organization to use personal prescriptions to fill its drug needs.
"The DEA told me it was okay to do it that way," Johnson told The Washington Post recently, in his first media interview about the case. "Otherwise, I never would have done it."
The county report showed that Johnson told officials he knew it was wrong, but he wrote prescriptions at McCain's request at least twice." |
