According to reports, the sister-in-law of Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who is a billionaire, made an urgent phone call to her family just before her car plunged into a pond in Texas on February 10th.
Angela Chao, aged fifty, tragically passed away after making a three-point turn and “accidentally” backing her vehicle into the water, as reported by the New York Post on Saturday. The incident was detailed in an article by the Wall Street Journal.
The Post article continued, stating that she was spending the weekend at the ranch with friends from Harvard Business School:
After eating dinner together and celebrating the Chinese New Year on Friday night, Chao left the guesthouse around 11:30 p.m. to head back to the main house, where her son was sleeping. It was cold out, so she decided to take her Tesla Model X SUV for the four-minute drive rather than walk.
But within minutes, she called one of her friends in a panic. While making a K-turn, she put the car in reverse instead of drive, she told them. While going backwards, the car went over an embankment and into a pond — and was sinking fast.
When her friends rushed to the scene, one of them jumped into the water in an attempt to rescue Chao, while the ranch manager and his wife also rushed to the area.
Blanco County emergency crews arrived about 24 minutes after receiving a call for help from someone who dialed 911.
“Due to the rugged terrain, a number of responders got out of their cars and walked to the scene,” the Post article reported.
Reports indicated that the Tesla was completely submerged underwater. Deputies tried to break a window to rescue Chao. A tow truck made it to the scene to retrieve the vehicle, but its cable wasn’t long enough, leading officials to acquire a longer one.
As per law enforcement, two rescue crew members managed to extract the woman from the car just before 1:00 a.m. Water gushed out of the vehicle once the doors were opened.
“Chao was unresponsive, and EMS responders attempted to resuscitate her for 43 minutes to no avail, police said,” the Post article reported.
As we previously reported on March 2 that Chao’s death is now under “criminal investigation.” The outlet highlighted that Chao previously served as the CEO of the New York-based dry bulk shipping company Foremost Group.
Peter Schweizer, author of Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends, has pointed out that the family of Elaine Chao, former transportation secretary and wife of McConnell, maintains significant financial connections with the Chinese government.
During a 2021 interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow, he mentioned the Foremost Group, stating:
“[Elaine Cho’s] father, James Chao, runs a shipping company along with [her] sister, Angela Chao. That business has very close ties to the Chinese government, meaning that the Chinese government finances the construction of the ships that they use, provides the crews, they build the ships, [and] they provide the contracts. So there’s a very serious concern there about possible Chinese influence on the McConnell-Chao family.”
In 2019, Schweizer, who serves as president of the Government Accountability Institute and is a senior contributor at Breitbart News, raised concerns about McConnell’s financial connections with China.
He reported, “Business in China is done with a political purpose. The China State Shipbuilding Corporation is controlled by the government, by the Communist Party, and they do business deals with people in the West with the expectation that they will get things in return.”
“Business in China is done with a political purpose. The China State Shipbuilding Corporation is controlled by the government, by the Communist Party, and they do business deals with people in the West with the expectation that they will get things in return,” he said.
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