by mr_spock on 08/08/08, 7:28 pm
>> In 1989, following two back surgeries, Cindy McCain became addicted to
>> the
>> painkillers Vicodin and Percocet. To keep up with her daily need of 10 to
>> 15
>> pills, she used other people's names for prescriptions and stole drugs
>> from
>> the American Voluntary Medical Team, a mobile surgical unit she'd begun
>> in
>> 1988 to provide emergency medical services around the world. A 1993 DEA
>> audit of the amount of painkillers her charity had obtained quickly
>> uncovered her thefts. She avoided prosecution for those crimes through an
>> agreement with the Justice Department in which she submitted to drug
>> testing, paid a fine, performed community service in a soup kitchen, and
>> joined Narcotics Anonymous. She also closed her medical charity.
>>
>> Cindy McCain is Senator McCain's second wife. His infidelities put strain
>> on
>> his first marriage, and he was divorced from Carol McCain, his wife of 15
>> years, in 1980. (Carol McCain not only waited for five and a half years
>> for
>> her husband to return from Vietnam, but she also endured a horrific
>> automobile accident during that period which broke both her legs and one
>> arm
>> and ruptured her spleen. She nearly lost her left leg, and surgeries left
>> her four inches shorter than she was before her accident. The woman John
>> McCain returned to was far different in appearance from the beautiful
>> former
>> model he'd left behind.)
>>
>> Cindy Lou Hensley and John McCain began dating in 1979. While the Wall
>> Street Journal article used as the source for the e-mail's information
>> states "At the time, Sen. McCain was separated from his first wife,"
>> numerous other sources assert he was still living with Carol McCain when
>> he
>> began seeing his future wife, Cindy. John and Cindy wed in 1980, one
>> month
>> after his divorce from Carol became final.
>>
>>