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Edited on Thu Sep-11-08 01:31 AM by Boz
Breaks the water will be muddy. Dems today are saying Gosinski is a whistleblower who got fired because he knew about John McCain covering up/ abusing power of Cindy McCains addiction.
This is 15 year old news, not just breaking, it is literlly from 1993 and was completely washed out by 1995.
Its even on Cindy McCains wiki listing
Tom Gosinski is the AVMT employee in the listing, he tried to black mail the McCains for $250,000 and it didnt work.
Hanging the Dem Cause hat on this guy would be like the repubs hung theres on Larry Sinclair against Obama, with the exception that Sinclair had no real world interaction with Obama, although Gosinski did with the MCcains
But Gosinski is a money grubber none the less, which is why he is pushing this again.
They will confuse the Troopergate issue with this issue and say oh thats long done and over with "they" (the dems) are attacking Sarah Palin the same as they have attacked John McCain, counting on the lack of time to sort it all out by the American public
From Cindy McCains wiki
Prescription drug addiction
In 1989, Cindy McCain became addicted to Percocet and Vicodin, opioid painkillers,<37> which she initially took to alleviate pain following two spinal surgeries for ruptured discs,<38><39> and to ease emotional stress during the Keating Five affair.<37> The addiction progressed to where she was taking upwards of twenty pills a day,<14> and she resorted to having an AVMT physician write illegal prescriptions.<40> In 1992, her parents staged an intervention to force her to get help;<21> she told her husband about her problem, attended a drug treatment facility, began outpatient sessions, and ended her three years of addiction.<37> Surgery in 1993 resolved her back pain.<37><39>
In January 1993, an AVMT employee, who had discovered her illegal drug use, was terminated on budgetary grounds.<41> Subsequently, he tipped off the Drug Enforcement Administration,<41> and a federal investigation ensued resulting in McCain paying the costs of the government's investigation, and enrolling in a diversion program.<40><9><41> In a move that critics described as a preemptive strike,<9><37> Cindy McCain publicly revealed her past addiction: "Although my conduct did not result in compromising any missions of AVMT, my actions were wrong, and I regret them."<9>
From elsewhere on the Internet
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.
Meanwhile, in early 1994 Gosinski filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against McCain, which he told her he would settle for $250,000. In April 1994, Dowd requested that Maricopa County officials investigate Gosinski for extortion. The Phoenix New Times was about to publish a negatively-cast article about the whole affair. Cindy McCain pre-empted this by publicly revealing her past addiction, stating she hoped it would give fellow drug addicts courage in their struggles: "Although my conduct did not result in compromising any missions of AVMT, my actions were wrong, and I regret them." A flurry of press attention followed, including charges by Gosinski that she had asked him to lie concerning her drug use when the McCains were applying to adopt their baby from Bangladesh and statements by past AVMT employees that Gosinski had once threatened to blackmail her. The Arizona Republic published an editorial cartoon ridiculing the motivations for her AVMT work and an award dinner in her honor was canceled citing poor ticket sales. In the end, both Gosinski's lawsuit and the extortion investigation against him were dropped.
AVMT concluded its activities in 1995.
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