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From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca
In article <06l9u.78371$eE7.50774@fx21.iad>,
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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
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>PMO involved in plan to cover up Duffy expenses, lawyer says
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>Mike Duffy’s lawyer will “address the media” today at 12:15 p.m. as
>Duffy and two other senators face suspension without pay.
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>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.
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>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.
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>But Bayne refused to release the emails that he said showed the effort
>reached right into the upper echelons of the PMO.
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>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.
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>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.
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>Bayne addressed reporters Monday afternoon as Duffy and two other
>senators face suspension without pay.
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>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.
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>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.”
There must more than meets the eye.
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