One Of DeLay's Friends Suspected Of Smuggling Cocaine

Tom Delay has connections to some interesting fellows.

One of the two owners of the DC9 (tail number N900SA) busted at an airport in the Yucatan last week after lumbering in from Caracas, Venezuela carrying an astonishing 5.5 TONS of cocaine was appointed in 1993 to the Business Advisory Council of the National Republican Congressional Committee by then-Congressional Majority Leader Tom Delay, The MadCowMorningNews can exclusively report.

Who is one of the owners?

The Delay appointee in question is Brent Kovar, owner of a firm called Skyway Communications Holding Corp. The firm ran into a few problems between 2002 and 2005 -- in fact, it lost $40 million and had to file for bankruptcy.

But Kovar has a plan.

And in this very revealing article from the Tampa Bay Business Journal, we learn that Skyway planned to get out of its hole by relaying [sic] on certain "white knights." And who were these worthies...?

"A venture capital group is ready to do this," he said citing talks with some of the original Arab investors, and "the end result is it's going well," Kovar said.

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Oh no.

So let's get the chronology straight. Kovar's company hits bankruptcy court. He tells the judge that mysterious "Arabs" will soon bail him out. Next thing ya know, his DC9 is caught hauling in tons of nose candy.

There isn't much point to this story except to point out one friend of DeLay who won't be called as a character witness.

To be fair, neither this story nor any other I could find even suggested any connection between DeLay and the coke.

Oh yeah, I liked the term "white knights" were coming to save Kovar. Was he referring to packets of white powder? Just asking.

Note: The picture is of a different bust of 3 metric tons of cocaine, just to put the 5.5 tons in perspective.