The co-host of a recent top-dollar fundraiser for Sen. John McCain oversaw the payment of roughly $1.7 million to a Colombian paramilitary group that is today designated a terrorist organization by the United States.Whoops. I'll bet he still ends up taking the money anyway. Like he always does.
Carl H. Lindner Jr., the billionaire Cincinnati businessman, was CEO of Chiquita Brands International from 1984 to 2001, and remained on the company's board of directors until May 2002. Beginning under his tenure, Chiquita executives paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (known by the Spanish acronym AUC), which is described by George Washington University's National Security Archive as an "illegal right-wing anti-guerrilla group tied to many of the country's most notorious civilian massacres."
You may be asking, why would a banana company need to hire a terrorist paramilitary group? The banana industry is one of the most crooked, violent, and soulless industries on the earth. Hiring a terrorist group might have actually been a step forward for the Chiquita company, given their history.
It turns out McCain's chief political adviser, lobbyist Charlie Black, lobbied for Chiquita in the past in addition to an oil company that bombed a Colombian village and various murderers, strongmen, and dictators. Great company you keep John boy. Keep grasping for that moral high ground.
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