Michael Connell

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Person.png Michael Connell   CavdefRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(pilot)
Michael Connell.jpg
BornNovember 30, 1963
DiedDecember 19, 2008 (Age 45)
Cause of death
Plane crash
Victim ofPremature death
A US political consultant who died in a small plane crash

Not to be confused with Michael Connell (spook) of the CNA.

Michael Connell was a high-level Republican consultant who was subpoenaed in a case regarding alleged tampering with the 2004 U.S. Presidential election and a case involving thousands of missing emails pertaining to the political firing of U.S. Attorneys. Connell was killed when the plane he was flying crashed on December 19, 2008. Mark Gorton lists him on a list of "some probable murders to cover up the crimes of the Cabal".[1]

A video by James Corbett

Request for protection

In July 2008, the lead attorney in the King Lincoln Bronzeville Neighborhood Association v. Blackwell case, Cliff Arnebeck, sent a letter [2] to U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey seeking protection for Connell as a witness in the case, saying he had been threatened. Arnebeck wrote, “We have been confidentially informed by a source we believe to be credible that Karl Rove has threatened Michael Connell, a principal witness we have identified in our King Lincoln case in federal court in Columbus, Ohio, that if he does not agree to 'take the fall' for election fraud in Ohio, his wife Heather will be prosecuted for supposed lobby law violations."[3] Arnebeck claims that months later, his source called back and warned that Connell's life was in danger.[4]

Death

At about 6 p.m. on December 19, 2008, Connell was killed in the crash of a single-engine 1997 Piper Saratoga private airplane, which he was flying, which occurred in Lake Township, between 2.5 and 3 miles short of the runway at the Akron-Canton Airport near Akron, Ohio. Connell was alone in the plane and had been returning from the College Park Airport in Maryland, near Washington, D.C.. There were reported to have been no signs of mechanical problems with the plane.[5]

The National Transportation Safety Board published its final report into the accident that killed Connell on January 28, 2010. The board blamed pilot error, concluding that Connell had lost control of the aircraft as a result of disorientation while turning in cloud.

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