Cindy McCain stole pain killers from young children and set up a false charity to do so.
In 1989, Cindy McCain became addicted to
opioid painkillers such as
Percocet and
Vicodin,
[31] which she initially took to alleviate pain following two spinal surgeries for
ruptured discs and to ease emotional stress during the
Keating Five scandal, which involved her as a bookkeeper who had difficulty finding receipts. The addiction progressed to where she resorted to stealing drugs from her own American Voluntary Medical Team. During 1992,
Tom Gosinski, the director of government and international affairs for AVMT, discovered her drug theft. Subsequently in 1992, her parents staged an
intervention to force her to get help; she told her husband about her problem, attended a drug treatment facility, began outpatient sessions, and ended her three years of active addiction. A
hysterectomy in 1993 resolved her back pain.
In January 1993, McCain terminated Gosinski's employment on grounds of budgetary reasons. In spring 1993, Gosinski tipped off the
Drug Enforcement Administration to investigate McCain's drug theft, and a federal investigation ensued. McCain's defense team, led by Washington lawyer
John Dowd, secured an agreement with the
U.S. Attorney's office that limited her punishment to financial restitution and enrollment in a
diversion program, without any public disclosure.
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Stealing drugs from that were supposed to go to sick people under a charity she herself set up. Then firing the guy who threatened to out her for it. Oh and of course her husband had absolutely
no idea that she was addicted to any substances whatsoever.
I mean, you really just can't make this stuff up. It is simply cartoonish in its level of villianary.
No punishment for the rich and well connected such as Cindy McCain though. She steals drugs from children and the terminally ill, but walks away scot free. A person who breaks into a doctors office, however, (a
much lesser offense than McCain's) would reap the whirlwind.