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   The Prime Minister is up to his eyeballs in this coverup.  Now let's   
   watch the Opposition and the legal experts take this rotten PM down.   
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   THE CANADIAN PRESS   thestar.com Published on Mon Oct 21 2013   
      
      
      
   PMO involved in plan to cover up Duffy expenses, lawyer says   
      
   Mike Duffy’s lawyer will “address the media” today at 12:15 p.m. as   
   Duffy and two other senators face suspension without pay.   
      
      
   The Prime Minister’s Office told Sen. Mike Duffy he could claim living   
   expenses though he lived in Ottawa, and later orchestrated a “coverup”   
   that included “media lines” for Duffy to use and cash for repayment once   
   it all became a political embarrassment, says his lawyer.   
      
   High-profile Ottawa criminal lawyer Donald Bayne told a news conference   
   Monday that the prime minister’s office was deeply involved in a plan to   
   cover Duffy’s living expenses.   
      
   But Bayne refused to release the emails that he said showed the effort   
   reached right into the upper echelons of the PMO.   
      
   Bayne said Duffy was initially assured by the government’s leader in the   
   Senate and by PMO officials that he was within his rights to claim   
   P.E.I. residency in order to get expenses reimbursed.   
      
   But once the Conservative “base” of supporters became angry over the   
   affair, the PMO turned on Duffy and “scapegoated” him, said Bayne.   
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   Bayne also said Duffy was told by the Senate government leader, then   
   Marjory LeBreton, in 2009 that he could use P.E.I. as his principal   
   residence for Senate purposes.   
      
   Bayne addressed reporters Monday afternoon as Duffy and two other   
   senators face suspension without pay.   
      
   Senate motions are to be debated this week that would suspend Duffy,   
   Pamela Wallin and Patrick Brazeau for “gross negligence” for the rest of   
   the parliamentary session, which could last two full years.   
      
   The three former members of the Conservative caucus were found by the   
   Senate to have filed improper expense claims following independent audits.   
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   Wallin’s lawyer has called the proposed suspensions “a fundamental   
   affront to Canadian democracy.”   
      
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