That's not what I'm saying. I just don't think that TR was tempted. He may have known about his brother's dabblings but not to what extent, nor want any part in them. Do I think that someone in the family could have played a role in this? Yes. Do I know for a fact that family can keep terrible secrets for eons? Yes. Can money buy you out of something you did? Absolutely.
As another thought:
I brought this up in another thread today. I'm gonna toss it out here. It is just a theory, I've not mentioned it before, b/c, well, it makes me uncomfortable, but, I know
nothing, other than it is done. I've never had a link to back up my knowledge, till I stumbled across this one while researching in the other thread. They go out from loose states, to strict states, and drugs/cash come back.
Anyway, here it is.
An analysis of data from 107 pairs of bordering states
2 throughout the country shows a relationship between the strictness of a state’s gun laws relative to its neighbor and the number of firearms recovered
3 from that neighbor.
4
Chicago is close to the borders of two states — Wisconsin and Indiana — that have weak gun laws. A
2014 report from the city of Chicago noted that
60 percent of guns used to commit crimes in Chicago from 2009 to 2013 originated outside of Illinois, and Indiana and Wisconsin were two of the biggest sources of recovered guns.
5 And Illinois is not alone. (Ky. is shown in the diagram and is a pretty loose state,).
Ky, is also a well known state to most of the folks in this case. OH is seen as a stricter state too, given a score of 30 compared to Ky's ranking 8. Michigan, where, iirc, they traveled to, for cars and such, is even ranked as more strict, receiving a score of 36, yet Detroit has a ton of issues. Kentucky and Michigan are 28 points apart. Handguns must be registered with LE, in Michigan, and a permit is required to purchase from an individual.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/gun-laws-stop-at-state-lines-but-guns-dont/