Former OceanGate employee testifies CEO said he would ‘buy a congressman’ if the Coast Guard blocked Titan expedition
Former OceanGate employee testifies CEO said he would ‘buy a congressman’ if the Coast Guard blocked Titan expedition
Former OceanGate employee Matthew McCoy testified Friday that at a lunch meeting in September 2017, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush told him that if he ran into any issues with the US Coast Guard ahead of the Titan expedition, Rush “would buy a congressman” and make the problems “go away.”
The only person I felt for on the sub was the kid forced onto that thing by his father. He was terrified and thinking that his last moments on this earth were full of dread and fear, makes me sad.
His dad was a dickhead for doing that and a told my kids if I ever try to make them do anything like that, punch me in the nads and run.
Dumbass.
A bit of career suicide for visibility on government corruption?
Sure he's a tool, but this will likely make a lot of people feel a little uncomfortable.
At least for twenty seconds or so.
How interesting that a controversial company was called "OceanGate." Considering media's tendency to give almost every scandal a nickname ending in -gate, that name was practically foreshadowing.
OceanGategate
So basically he’s Peter Thiel minus the Titanic stuff.
Peter Thiel has a reputation for being evil but smart. This guy didn't seem so smart, just cocky and ambitious.
He built a homebuilt aircraft and that wasn't the thing that killed him, so he wasn't dumb by any stretch, but "smart enough to be dangerous" seems like a phrase coined just for him.