Remember when John McCain was in favor of campaign finance reform, before he became the biggest campaign finance cheater. First there was his gaming of the public finance system, now his supporters are engaged in blatant money laundering:
Alice Rocchio is an office manager at the New York headquarters of the Hess Corp., drives a 1993 Chevy Cavalier and lives in an apartment in Queens, N.Y., with her husband, Pasquale, an Amtrak foreman.
Despite what appears to be a middle-class lifestyle, the couple has written $61,600 in checks to John McCain’s presidential campaign and the Republican National Committee, most of it within days of McCain’s decision to endorse offshore oil drilling.
At a June fundraiser, the Rocchios joined top executives at Hess Corp. — Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John Hess, his wife, Susan, his mother, Norma Hess, and six other officials in giving a total of $313,500 to a joint McCain-RNC fundraising committee, Federal Election Commission records show.
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Alice Rocchio, reached at the office, confirmed that she registered her ’93 Chevy in February, but said that she “absolutely” used her own money to make the donations.
But of course. It’s a measure of how broken the system is that this obvious sham will not be investigated, though it should be fairly easy to get to the bottom of it. If she wrote a check the money had to be in an account. When did it go in, and when did it come out.
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