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   Canada Revenue Agency staff suspended after mobster receives $381K cheque: CRA   
   SOTW   
      
   By Marian Scott, THE GAZETTEOctober 31, 2013   
      
   MONTREAL — The Canada Revenue Agency suspended two employees without pay   
   Thursday in connection with an ongoing police investigation into why the CRA   
   mistakenly issued late crime boss Nicolo Rizzuto a $400,000 cheque six years   
   ago.   
      
   The suspensions came in the wake of an RCMP probe into why the agency sent a   
   $381,737 refund to the Mafia figure in September 2007. Rizzuto, who owed the   
   government $1.5 million in back taxes, was in prison at the time.   
      
   Rizzuto was assassinated at age 86 in his Cartierville home on Nov. 10, 2010.   
      
   In a statement, federal revenue minister Kerry-Lynne Findlay said she has   
   instructed the agency to co-operate fully with the RCMP investigation.   
      
   “Our government is committed to cracking down on any misconduct by officials   
   and cleaning up the situation at CRA,” Findlay said in a statement.   
      
   Since 2010, the agency has fired eight employees, six of whom have been   
   charged with corruption.   
   In September, CRA commissioner Andrew Treusch said the agency had launched an   
   internal investigation into the Rizzuto cheque.   
      
   The cheque was never cashed because Jean-Pierre Paquette, a veteran   
   investigator with the CRA, noticed the payment had been made and went to   
   Rizzuto’s home to retrieve it. In October, the federal government defended its   
   decision to eliminate a special    
   CRA unit that investigated organized crime. The Special Enforcement Unit, set   
   up in the 1980s, was involved several high-profile raids and dozens of arrests   
   over the years.   
      
   Findlay has also defended the government’s decision to give the CRA $8 million   
   in new funding last year to crack down on charities. So far, only one charity,   
   Physicians for Global Survival, has seen its charitable status revoked as a   
   result of the    
   charity probe, for spending more than 10 per cent of its budget on political   
   activities.   
      
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