The Secret Empire of Mitch McConnell and His Wife, the Head of the Transportation Department

Senator Mitch McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao, is the Secretary of the Department of Transportation, and another plum government job may be handed to their family as her sister's husband, Gordon Hartogensis, has been nominated to be the new director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation at the Department of Labor. Peter Schweizer, author Secret Empires, revealed that Elaine Chao's family owns a major shipping company in China that is reliant on the Chinese government contracts. [...]