Family legend has it that Grandpa Chiba started out as a midranking Drac... and outright -defected- the instant he realized what he was being asked to do. And promptly went on to take over the resistance forces in his area, going on to save several -thousand- people over the course of the occupation.
The fact that an obvious Drac was allowed to survive the planet's liberation is generally taken as the most convincing possible evidence that the story is, in fact, true.
And as to Makoto... well, I'll grant you that Ransom would have -liked- to be rid of her and all the other Aprilists... but the thing is, that the April group (I'm blanking their proper name) had a well-deserved reputation for integrity... which made them very popular, and in turn made getting the Mob after any one of them a pretty tough sell.
Left on her own, Ransom might've tried, but Pierre and Saint-Just have more sense than that.
But making her People's Commisioner on a ship bound for the most irrelevant possible of screaming hinterlands... -that- they could do.
Which was how she got packed up on a battleship bound for the Inner Sphere, to do some under-the-table trading with the Cappelans and the Combine. Not the PRH's preffered partners, granted, but Manticore's Xephon wormhole terminus and the already warming relations between Steiner and Davion mean that the Peeps are, as usual, a day late and a dollar short for the folks they'd -like- to be dealing with.
So. It did some good, and she wasn't anywhere -near- New Paris, so the Committee was prepared to count the whole thing as 'good'.