Vanity Fair: McCormick “Appears To Have Chartered A Number Of Private Planes To Promote His Political Bid.”
PENNSYLVANIA — New reporting from Vanity Fair reveals mega-millionaire David McCormick has been chartering private planes to fly to Pennsylvania from his multi-million dollar mansion in his home state of Connecticut in a failed attempt to trick voters into thinking he lives in Pennsylvania.
The news follows reporting from the Associated Press that showed McCormick has been lying to voters about living in Pennsylvania when has actually been living on Connecticut’s “gold coast.”
ICYMI: Vanity Fair: David McCormick says he lives in Pennsylvania. Flight records appear to tell a different story
- Through the marvel that is modern air travel, a candidate for public office is no longer confined to living in the state they hope to serve in. This relatively new phenomenon appears to be a godsend for David McCormick, a Republican who reportedly now lives in a Connecticut mansion but is poised to run for US Senate in Pennsylvania, where he appears to have chartered a number of private planes to promote his political bid.
- Federal Aviation Administration records list McCormick as a co-owner of four Pilatus PC-12s operated by PlaneSense, a fractional aircraft ownership program. According to Flightradar24, on Monday morning, one of those planes flew from Bridgeport, Connecticut, to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where McCormick visited the state capitol.
- There, he was reportedly spotted talking with Doug Mastriano, the Capitol riot participant who was defeated in the Pennsylvania gubernatorial election last year.
- After a few hours of glad-handing, the same plane took off from Harrisburg back to Bridgeport.
- McCormick lives in a $16 million mansion he rents in Westport, Connecticut, an exquisitely affluent town along the Gold Coast.
- From there, McCormick has seemingly utilized PlaneSense, a kind of timeshare but for private planes. The company’s other customers include onetime Bear Sterns copresident Warren Spector and former Goldman Sachs vice chairman John Weinberg, whose names are listed on the FAA registration records for two separate PC-12s co-owned by McCormick.
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