McCain and the Oligarchs...Part II
Posted by Moira Whelan
My in-box is flooded with odd stories of McCain's ties to Russian oligarchs. This one is probably the most sketchy.
Check out where John McCain was on his 70th birthday:
McCain's 70th birthday bash held on board the yacht of a Russian aluminum tycoon in the Adriatic Sea. The party was held on August 29, 2006, McCain's birthday and followed a congressional junket by McCain and five other GOP senators to the Republic of Georgia.
But it gets even more strange...
The 70th birthday bash was reportedly a promise of huge cash donations to McCain's forthcoming presidential campaign, another indication of violations of law prohibiting donations from foreign sources. The quid pro quo for Derpaska was that McCain and his top lobbyists were pushing the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS) and its Airbus subsidiary to receive the lucrative US Air Force contract to replace the Air Force's fleet of refueling tankers. The reported source for the aluminum in the Airbus tanker aircraft is Deripaska's Russian Aluminum Company (RusAl).
It seems that McCain's ties to Deripaska and the Russian Oligarchs are in contradiction of his anti-Russian rhetoric.
Posted by: Peace | June 13, 2008 at 04:54 PM