A new generation of the extended Chao family starts maxing out to Mitch McConnell. A college freshman who, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, doled out more than $10k. Elaine Chao’s family has been one of McConnell’s biggest supporters over several decades, NYT reported.
It’s all laid out in this story from last year. nytimes.com/2019/06/02/us/…
In that story you’ll read that Elaine Chaio’s family, including her father, started bundling donations to McConnell in the days after the June 1989 Tiananmen Massacre. Weeks later her father was at the Communist Party’s inner sanctum in Beijing, meeting the Chinese leader
Actually looks like her donation was $5600 total. The McConnell for Majority Leader committee donation was transferred to the senate campaign committee funds. See here. 
March was a very big month for Chao family donations to McConnell w 7 family members giving the max $5600, for a total of $39,200. That includes 3 members of the 3rd generation - two nephews and a niece of Elaine Chao, per FEC. Year 31 of Chao family campaign cash to McConnell.
