[StAnDeliver]

"The guy was a known gambler, yes, but he was also a known (illegal) weapons dealer."

THIS. This is why we have been fed this string of nonsense.

[piasa]

Makes me wonder if he was involved in Fast n Furious.

He had a Filipino girlfriend.

Yee?, the Democrat in California who got caught up in a weapons smuggling deal, made his deal with MILF in the Philippines, as I recall. Yee? was an associate of Dianne Feinstein.