$5,800 whisky bottle given to Pompeo as gift missing, state department says

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

The state department has said it is looking into the apparent disappearance of a nearly $6,000 bottle of whisky given more than two years ago to then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo by the government of Japan. In a notice filed in the federal register, the department said it could find no trace of the bottle’s whereabouts and that there is an “ongoing inquiry” into what happened to the booze. The department reported the investigation in its annual accounting of gifts given to senior US officials by foreign governments and leaders.

Ridiculous persecution. Is this the face a man who knows where the expensive whisky went?

[Johny Joe Hold]

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Ridiculous persecution. Is this the face a man who knows where the expensive whisky went?

So, the whiskey disappeared. Why is Trump's man supposed to know what happened to it?

It would be better to interrogate some of those liberal politicians of Irish descent.

[WilliamJenningsBryan]

Re: $5,800 whisky bottle given to Pompeo as gift missing, state department says

Typical Democrat "fake news" diversion to cover other Democrat scandals - like:

- Obama's 60th birthday superspreader party in Martha's Vineyard

- Cuomo's groping scandal

- Cuomo and Witch Whitmer's Covid nursing home killings

While Pompeo is of Italian ancestry, one has to admit he has an Irish look about him. Nonetheless, according to other sources (below) he was in Saudi Arabia at the time and everyone knows mooselimbs don't drink.

Where did the booze go? My bets are on Nancy Pelosi.

What everyone really wants to know is what happened to Hunter Biden's laptop.

$5,800 bottle of whiskey given to Pompeo by Japan is missing
By Caroline Vakil - 08/04/21 08:30 PM EDT

A bottle of whiskey estimated to be worth $5,800 that the Japanese government gave to former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been reported missing.

. . .

The New York Times reported that the State Department has launched an investigation into the missing bottle, citing two people familiar with the matter. The newspaper noted that Pompeo was in Saudi Arabia at the time the gift was given.

Pompeo’s lawyer, William Burck, told The Hill in a statement that Pompeo did not remember receiving a bottle of whiskey from the Japanese government and did not know the State Department was investigating it being missing.

“Mr. Pompeo has no recollection of receiving the bottle of whiskey and does not have any knowledge of what happened to it,” Burck said. “He is also unaware of any inquiry into its whereabouts. He has no idea what the disposition was of this bottle of whiskey.”

. . .

https://thehill.com/policy/internati...pan-is-missing

[MitzaLizalor]

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A bottle of whiskey estimated to be worth $5,800 that the Japanese government gave to former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been reported missing.

How would the Nips expect their gift to be deployed? Occasional visits from dignitaries, “Try some of this stuff,” just what they'd hoped. And a single bott. doesn't last long when entertaining (for instance) Russians. If not this, what are Secretaries of State paid to do?

[Joanna Lytton-Vasey]

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The Japanese whisky was valued at $5,800 ...

By whom? Had it been decanted into a silver-filigree-decanter or something? I mean, maybe the Japs claimed it was worth $5,800, but are we seriously expected to believe that any Japanese whisky is worth more than about $10?

It's whisky, of sorts, I suppose. I wouldn't expect anyone to have drunk it, but maybe Mrs Pompeo used it in her cooking. I wouldn't put it in a trifle, but maybe it ended up in a fruit cake?

[James Hutchins]

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Probably stolen by one of the cleaning staff. Godless cretins, all of them.

If a Christian man like Pompeo took it as a parting gift, he would of noted it in his file.

[MitzaLizalor]

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By whom? Had it been decanted into a silver-filigree-decanter or something? I mean, maybe the Japs claimed it was worth $5,800, but are we seriously expected to believe that any Japanese whisky is worth more than about $10?

It's whisky, of sorts, I suppose. I wouldn't expect anyone to have drunk it, but maybe Mrs Pompeo used it in her cooking. I wouldn't put it in a trifle, but maybe it ended up in a fruit cake?

I've never heard of Japanese liquor used in cooking, maybe taken with live squid tentacles (perhaps) (that's more Korean though isn't it?) but would not recommend searching that topic like I just did however occasionally when sourcing Icelandic sloe vodka as an alternative when Polish rose-petal liqueur is unavailable (for use in a trifle) I meet an unusual gentleman. The head is like something from Frans Hals; he claims to be an Irish Dutchman and trades by the docks but is frequently absent getting in even more expensive liquor priced from around $7,000 and up. Chatting away at one of his tastings (there was usually one taking place but not of the ten grand stuff) I asked if he sold much?

“Oh, yes,” he said. “Quite a lot, or at least regular enough to keep a good selection in.” And it was certainly that. He was promoting a Tasmanian raspberry concoction that looked like a pink milkshake but was rather confusing.

“Who buys it?” I wondered. Around there are some large shipping HQ's and exporting manufacturers (well, that's his story and he stuck to it) which is plausible even from a Dutch Irishman who looks like he lost his razor halfway to reducing the beard down to Laughing Cavalier proportions.

“Sometimes they have a good month,” he looked like he slept under a hedge, “‘Hurrah!’ they say, ‘Let's all whack in a few hundred out of this large bonus we won't be mentioning to SO's and get some of that muck he's got around the corner.’” Which they do. They get to keep most of the bonus accompanied by ludicrously overpriced cigars (he kept a range to choose from) and a tot they'd otherwise never get to sample.

He made very good sense but as the details show, I hope, someone looking like that in his shop down the docks selling $10,000 bottles of anything with a Dutch-Irish accent is mot always reliable. The raspberry stuff was OK though. I bought some of that. Perhaps Mrs Pompeo would like some?

[FONT="Courier New"][B]Frans Hals[/B]
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[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

Re: $5,800 whisky bottle given to Pompeo as gift missing, state department says

“Mr. Pompeo has no recollection of receiving the bottle of whiskey and does not have any knowledge of what happened to it,” Burck said. “He is also unaware of any inquiry into its whereabouts. He has no idea what the disposition was of this bottle of whiskey.”

I imagine Mike is also unfamiliar with the licorice notes, the floral nose and the sharp alcohol burn on the front side that melts into a lazy Summer evening rounded off with a long, long, long finish only attainable by seasoning in Madeira sherry oak barrels subject to Summer-Winter cycles in a marine environment. How would he know about that?

[MitzaLizalor]

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I imagine Mike is also unfamiliar with the licorice notes, the floral nose and the sharp alcohol burn on the front side that melts into a lazy Summer evening rounded off with a long, long, long finish only attainable by seasoning in Madeira sherry oak barrels subject to Summer-Winter cycles in a marine environment. How would he know about that?

well why not just drink Madiera?