Angela Chao, sister-in-law of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, placed a panicked phone call from her vehicle the night she died. “The car had zipped backward, tipping over an embankment and into a pond,” she told a friend, the Wall Street Journal reported. “It was sinking fast. Could they help her?” Chao, 50, a billionaire shipping mogul married to billionaire venture capitalist Jim Breyer, had been entertaining friends to celebrate Chinese New Year at the couple’s 900-acre ranch in Johnson City, about 40 miles west of Austin, Texas. Rather than spend the night at the 10-bedroom guest h…
