Senator Mike Duffy uncooperative with auditors

[Atomoa]

If it wasn't for the CBC the Duffy story wouldn't have seen the light of day.

Nigel Wright actually ok-ed Duffy's expenses.

When the public was informed however, the PMO started churning out the lies.

[Donald G]

Given the latest decision by the Senate Body it appears Mr Duffy and the two other wayward Senators will have two years to think of what they could and should have done instead of what they each chose to do.

The Senate decision should in no way affect any police investigation into the possible criminal aspects of what took place.

If the evidence does not exist or it is impossible for the police to surface and admit such evidence into Criminal Court changes should be made to discourage such irresponsible behavior in the future. And the trio should consider themselves very fortunate that they will avoid becoming known as the "Kingston Trio" ... singing their songs of woe from the Federal Penitentiary in Kingston Ontario.

[Atomoa]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/wright- ... -1.2433427

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's former chief of staff, Nigel Wright, is being investigated for bribery, fraud and breach of trust along with Senator Mike Duffy, in an RCMP probe that has expanded to include the Prime Minister's Office, court documents released today show.

Rob Ford crack habits can't bury this story. The PMO's right hand man - accused of fraud now. I don't think there is a single Canadian (outside the CPC) that believes the Stephen Harper didn't know what his right hand man was doing.

Criminality from the PMO, and Stephen Harper is pretending to be the only pig in the pen that isn't muddy.

[Urbane]

Very interesting:

Mike Duffy's Senate speeches questioned by RCMP

By Leslie MacKinnon, CBC News Posted: Nov 20, 2013

Newly released court documents filed by the RCMP raise questions about Senator Mike Duffy's explosive speeches to the Senate last month in which he defended his actions in an expenses scandal.

Cpl. Greg Horton, the RCMP's lead investigator into questionable spending by Duffy, and fellow senators Patrick Brazeau and Pamela Wallin and former senator Mac Harb, took a close look at Duffy's speeches in an affidavit released Wednesday.

The affidavit was part of Horton's investigation into a deal between Duffy and Nigel Wright, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's former chief of staff, to repay Duffy's expenses. The document makes allegations of bribery, fraud on the government and breach of trust against Duffy and Wright.

To a Senate audience on Oct. 22, Duffy told a tale of being pressured by the PMO into complying with a story, or "scenario" as he put it, about why he willingly repaid the money he owed for inappropriate expenses. Duffy said he was warned Senator Carolyn Stewart Olsen and Senator David Tkachuk would lead a charge to have him expelled from the Senate on the grounds of not being a true resident of P.E.I., the province he was appointed to represent.

However, Horton says he has found no email evidence that suggests Duffy's story of PMO threats and intimidation is valid.

On the contrary, according to Horton, he found an email from Duffy to his own lawyer in which he stated Wright did not threaten to remove him from the Senate. Despite that conclusion, Duffy nevertheless told his lawyer he believed the threat to remove him was "obvious."

Horton also quotes an email from Senator Marjory LeBreton to Wright in which she dismisses Duffy's fears of being expelled from the Senate. Horton paraphrases LeBreton asking in her March 21 message to Wright, "if he [Duffy] lies awake at night dreaming up these things!" LeBreton was government leader in the Senate at the time.
'Monstrous fraud'

Horton, in a detailed dissection of Duffy's two explosive speeches before the Senate in October, lays out a case to deflate Duffy's claim he was a victim of a "monstrous fraud" which the embattled senator described as a "creation of the PMO's from start to finish."

'I have seen no evidence [Senator Mike] Duffy objected to someone else paying his fees'- RCMP Corp. Greg Horton in court affidavit released Nov. 29

Rather than a deal forced upon to Duffy ensuring he would uncomplainingly accept Wright's $90,000 cheque and compliantly repay his housing expenses, Horton depicts Duffy as the mastermind behind the arrangement.

Horton concludes it was in fact Duffy's strategy to seek repayment of his expenses and have his legal fees paid for. (Duffy previously revealed the Conservative Party paid his $12,000 legal fees connected to his expenses repayment. The party has confirmed this.)

Horton comes to the conclusion, in a phrase that may come to haunt Duffy, "I have seen no evidence Duffy objected to someone else paying his fees."

In an email to CBC News Wednesday, Duffy said he had no comment.

[Atomoa]

Rather than a deal forced upon to Duffy ensuring he would uncomplainingly accept Wright's $90,000 cheque and compliantly repay his housing expenses, Horton depicts Duffy as the mastermind behind the arrangement.

It wasn't Mr Duffy asking for the "ok" from first the Conservative Party of Canada (which they WERE going to repay Duffy's fraudulent charges back but the bill got too high), and then the PM. It wasn't Mr Duffy that ordered the Senate to whitewash the report on Duffy, illegally.

Actually, to even suggest that Mr]. Duffy made the PMO, the Conservative Party of Canada and the Senate cover up his fraud for him is silly. He doesn't have that sort of power or swing.

There is evidence to suggest this was a massive conspiracy on the part of the PMO, the Conservative Party of Canada and the Senate. There is evidence now that shows the Conservatives directed the Senate what to do (including illegally falsify a official report on fraud)

As it stands now, Nigel Wright asked Stephen Harper's permission a few times to go ahead with the fraud - BUT OF COURSE - the PM is saying that he only knew in "broad terms" and he want saying "ok to the fraud" but "ok to the repayment".

Nobody wrote down in a email "I told Stephen Harper we are committing fraud and he said go ahead". Instead - they were talking about committing fraud and talking about it via emails and asking for a go ahead from the PM. The PM said he gave the go- ahead on the repayment, not the fraud that everyone in his office was committing on his behalf.

Question - who thinks the PM was that clueless?

This was all routine for them. This is what they do just to save face - this was about perception. Imagine if actual money, power or "must have" business deals were at stake? If they can do this just to stop the Conservatives base from seeing a stain on the rug...

[EdCase]

Criminality from the PMO, and Stephen Harper is pretending to be the only pig in the pen that isn't muddy.

Perfect description of Harper, the PMO and his party: they are looking more like Orwell's 'Animal Farm' every day.

[The Rooster]

So , all total , the three Con senators have paid back the funds , the Liberal Max Harb , who is still under investigation , handed out government contracts to his friends *removed*

[hobbyguy]

Harper and his Cons have NOT put more money into the pockets of working and middle class folks. That is part of their propaganda myth of good economic and fiscal management. That they are good at, spinning propaganda into a myth.

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[The Rooster]

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[The Rooster]

Who do you want taking care of your money ? An Economist , accountant type , or a Drama teacher , with a trust fund that smokes pot ?

[Atomoa]

Who says money is all that matters?

[The Rooster]

Now the PM says that he fired Nigel Wright, and that he didn't resign.

In order to look more believable the PM is telling Canadians that he lied. Again.

Doesn't matter the RCMP have dropped the investigation into Nigel Wright , sorry no more lies about that please

[The Rooster]

Who says money is all that matters?

Good, Max Harb lied for over a decade and handed out government contracts for favors , does that not offend you ?

[maryjane48]

Doesn't matter the RCMP have dropped the investigation into Nigel Wright , sorry no more lies about that please

lol and you think that is a good thing?