Shocking, just SHOCKING! A conflict of interest for Trump Cabinet pick, the beloved Elaine Chao?

[Miles Archer]

President-elect Donald Trump has named Elaine L. Chao to head the U.S. Department of Transportation, overseeing the nation’s vast network of highways, railroads and airports. The job also means leading the Maritime Administration, which supervises the shipping industry and has as one of its primary missions to advocate for American-owned ships to fly the U.S. flag.

That could pose a conflict for Chao, whose family owns a shipping business that, while headquartered in New York, operates 17 ships flagged in Liberia and Hong Kong. The ships are owned by subsidiaries of the main business, now called Foremost Group, and most of the subsidiaries are registered in the Marshall Islands, a secretive jurisdiction where companies disclose little about their finances or officers.

Chao, 63, has not worked for Foremost Group except for a two-year stint before going to Harvard Business School. A spokeswoman for Chao said there’s no conflict between her duties as secretary of transportation and her ties to her family’s company, stressing that Chao has no “ownership stake” in Foremost.

Financial disclosure statements filed by Chao when she was George W. Bush’s Secretary of Labor from 2001 to 2009 declare no interest in the company, nor do disclosure statements filed by her husband, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/familys-shipping-company-could-pose-problems-for-trumps-transportation-pick/

[Ohioblue22]

1. McConnell gets info on Russian hacking, keeps quiet about it

Then his wife gets a job

[uponit7771]

2. ... but emails dammit !!! /sarcasm

[gordianot]

5. But he now says he wants an investigation.

See link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017414650

[Ohioblue22]

9. He looks says McConnell rejects special committee for Russian hacking

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/309936-mcconnell-rejects-special-committee-for-russian-hacking-allegations

[HughBeaumont]

4. . . . . I'm sorry, I just threw up in my mouth a little . . . .

Just the thought of Turtle McPaleman and her mating . . .

[niyad]

6. yikes!!!! mind bleach!!! STAT!!!!

[HughBeaumont]

7. There's just something really . . . "not right" creepy about McPaleman.

This goes beyond his turtle looks and lack of lips, discernible eyebrows or a jaw-line.

A guy this desperately right-wing and sociopathic on this many issues is hiding something.

[niyad]

8. sadly, I think you are quite correct. "what's hiding in YOUR closet, turtleman????"