Cindy McCain: More then an addict, she used employees names, a charity front and worse.. from a journal "paint a disturbing picture". When criminals get off, a privileged cover-up can take them to The WHITEHOUSE
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charity front and worse.. from a journal "paint a disturbing picture".
When criminals get off, a privileged cover-up can take them to The
WHITEHOUSE
Opiate for the Mrs. [Percocet and Vicodin] WARNING: this is a long
disturbing article]
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1994-09-08/news/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
By Amy Silverman, Jeremy Voas
Published on September 08, 1994
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.
John McCain, Cindy McCain
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.
But now New Times makes a public records request for documents in the
extortion case. It's only a matter of days before the story gets out.
Here's what the senator does.
He calls in another big gun, political strategist Jay Smith, who
conceives a rather remarkable plan.
On August 19--just three days before the records are to be made
public--Smith parades your wife before a select group of journalist
friends. She tells a tale of pain and triumph, and, incredibly, all
the reporters agree to sit on the story until August 22. When Cindy
McCain says her confession is intended to quell rumors and to inspire
other druggies to turn their lives around, the journalists lap it up.
They write about her "bravery." The first round of stories is one-
sided. There is no mention of Tom Gosinski or Romley's extortion
investigation.
But after a week, there is no glossing over huge gaps in the image
that has been spun for the public:
• 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.
• Tom Gosinski no longer has a civil lawsuit against Cindy McCain. It
died of neglect this summer.
While the stories told by the senator, his wife and his hired guns are
rife with inaccuracies and inconsistencies, everything Tom Gosinski
says seems to check out.
John and Cindy McCain are now attempting to return to lives of
privilege and prestige. If she gets into a diversion program and lives
by its rules, she'll have no criminal record.
Meanwhile, one volunteer doctor who wrote prescriptions at Cindy
McCain's behest is under investigation. He could lose his license.
And Tom Gosinski, the man who knew too much, is under criminal
investigation, working two jobs and trying to put his life back
together.
From September 1991 to January 1993, Tom Gosinski was the director of
government and international affairs for the American Voluntary
Medical Team, a nonprofit organization headed by Cindy Hensley McCain.
Gosinski says McCain started behaving erratically in the summer of
1992. He says he and other AVMT staff members became convinced she was
addicted to the prescription narcotics Percocet and Vicodin. They
believed she was obtaining these drugs illegally in the names of her
employees and the public charity she founded.
Gosinski's multiple claims--the knowledge of which, he says, led
McCain to fire him in January 1993--were central to a federal
investigation, a civil lawsuit, the extortion investigation and,
finally, a statewide media circus.
New Times obtained a copy of Gosinski's private journal. It covers the
period from early July 1992 through January 1993. Gosinski did not
grant New Times permission to print excerpts from the journal, but
neither did he disavow their accuracy. The 52 journal entries,
recorded during Cindy McCain's drug meltdown, paint a disturbing
picture.
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http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1994-09-08/news/opiate-for-the-mrs/2
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How much do FORMER Senators, campaigners PAST affairs and girlfriends
matter?
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http://groups.google.com/group/alt.royalty/msg/e4da3121bbdfd38d
Would Americans care if nukes go off over Russia/Georgia problem?
Israel...
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.royalty/msg/34a54246ed4bc7ef
Would an Anthrax cover-up be no big deal? Unlike WTC 2001 9/11
attacks...
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Don't p-off Nancy Reagan!
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WQ
> Cindy McCain: More then an addict, she used employees names, a
> charity front and worse.. from a journal "paint a disturbing picture".
> When criminals get off, a privileged cover-up can take them to The
> WHITEHOUSE
--- I don't trust Cindy. She's got evil eyes. She's the devil
incarnate, I tell you. The Devil Incarnate!
WQ
--- And even her name has a Satanic ring to it. Cindy --- Sin-dy ---
Sin D[evil], Which makes John McCain the Devil's minion. Evil.
Positively evil.