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   Only in B.C. - and only under the crooked, lying, incompetent BC 'Liberals' of   
   Gordon Campbell.   
   We need them out.   
   And not in 3 years - NOW.   
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   By CBC News - October 22, 2010   
      
   BC Rail trial cost more than $18M   
      
   B.C. Attorney General Mike de Jong says the cost of the BC Rail corruption   
   case is $18 million.   
   The amount includes the $6 million paid to former government aides Dave Basi   
   and Bobby Virk,   
   who both pleaded guilty to corruption charges, De Jong said Friday.   
      
   He said the $18 million does not include RCMP investigation costs, which have   
   not been made   
   public.   
      
   The $18 million covers the costs of Crown counsel, defence, the court and   
   document handling.   
      
   Basi and Virk, former Liberal operatives, pleaded guilty this week to charges   
   of breach of   
   trust and accepting a benefit in connection with the 2003 deal to privatize   
   the former   
   Crown-owned BC Rail.   
      
   The two men were sentenced to two years less a day of house arrest, while Basi   
   was also fined   
   $75,000.   
      
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