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   From: gregcarrsober@gmail.com   
      
   On 24/11/2013 2:56 PM, ConɀRConɀ wrote:   
   > He actually claimed $86/day for meals he ate (or didn't eat) in his own   
   > home in Ottawa. No bloody wonder he looks like he does.   
   > ______________________________   
   > CBC News Posted: Nov 24, 2013   
   >   
   > How the RCMP mapped the Wright-Duffy money trail   
   > Police piecing together puzzle of how $90K made its way from political   
   > staffer to senator   
   >   
   >   
   > RCMP investigators have already pieced together an almost-complete   
   > picture of how $90,000 from the prime minister's former chief of staff   
   > ended up in Senator Mike Duffy's bank account. But they want more   
   > information to finish the narrative.   
   >   
   > The money from Nigel Wright's personal resources was used to repay   
   > inappropriate housing and living expenses filed by Duffy over a   
   > four-year period.   
   >   
   > The origin, purpose, deliverance and acceptance of that $90,000 could   
   > result in charges against Duffy and Wright. Court documents released   
   > this week show both men are being investigated by the Mounties for   
   > bribery, fraud and breach of trust. No charges have been laid and the   
   > allegations have not been proven in court.   
   >   
   > In an affidavit filed in an Ottawa court Wednesday, RCMP Cpl. Greg   
   > Horton laid out how the money travelled from Wright to Duffy.   
   >   
   > Although Duffy owned his Ottawa suburban home before he was appointed to   
   > the Senate, he declared that his P.E.I. winterized cottage was his   
   > primary residence, allowing him to charge secondary expenses for his   
   > house in the nation's capital.   
   > The money route   
   >   
   > Once it was established that Duffy had to repay his expenses, he took   
   > out a $91,600 mortgage loan from the Royal Bank. In his affidavit,   
   > Horton says, "I believe this loan was an effort by Senator Duffy to   
   > create a paper trail so he could show that he obtained the loan to repay   
   > the money, if ever asked."   
   >   
   > Duffy would later tell reporters he voluntarily paid back the   
   > inappropriate expenses on his own, although he didn't believe he had   
   > done anything wrong. "It was the right thing to do," he said, explaining   
   > he'd taken out a bank loan to make the repayment   
   >   
   > On the same day Duffy obtained the mortgage loan, he took $80,000 from   
   > his private account and put it into a line of credit he said was being   
   > used for renovating his cottage.   
   >   
   > According to Horton, "He now had $91,600 from a mortgage loan, so having   
   > no need for it for the repayment, he put $80,000 of that money on his   
   > line of credit."   
   >   
   > The officer believes Duffy knew a bank draft from Wright was on its way.   
   >   
   > Three days later, on March 25, Wright arranged for a bank draft worth   
   > $90,172.24 to be delivered to the office of Janice Payne, Duffy's   
   > lawyer. The figure was the exact amount Senate administration staff   
   > calculated Duffy owed in inappropriately claimed expenses.   
   >   
   > On March 26, a branch-to-branch transfer put $90,172.24 into Duffy's   
   > private RBC account.   
   >   
   > On that same day, a personal cheque from Duffy for $90,172.24 made out   
   > to the Receiver General was delivered to the Senate.   
   >   
   > Horton says in the affidavit that he believes this was Nigel Wright's   
   > money. One purpose of the 81-page affidavit is to persuade a judge to   
   > allow him access to bank records showing who transferred the money into   
   > Duffy's account, and from where.   
   >   
   > That information would complete the picture of a complex routing of   
   > money designed to hide the source of the funds, and a plan to make it   
   > seem Duffy had used his own resources to repay his expenses.   
   >   
   >   
   > Why Duffy's Senate debt jumped from $32K to $90K   
   >   
   > A question that rises out of the RCMP documents is how the amount of   
   > money Duffy owed the Senate for inappropriate expenses escalated from   
   > $32,000, a figure Wright, in early February, initially thought was the   
   > correct amount — which the Conservative Party was apparently willing to   
   > pay — to $90,000.   
   >   
   > The party balked at the higher figure, which Wright wound up covering   
   > since Duffy either couldn't, or wouldn't.   
   >   
   > The smaller figure may have come from a Deloitte audit on Duffy's   
   > expenses, conducted in February, that concluded the P.E.I. senator   
   > charged about $34,000 in living expenses for the 18-month period the   
   > independent accounting firm was tasked to examine.   
   >   
   > The audit shows Duffy collected a private accommodation allowance for   
   > his house in Kanata, an Ottawa suburb, because presumably he didn't have   
   > a mortgage.   
   >   
   > The private accommodation allowance is $28 per day, amounting to about   
   > $10,000 a year. Had Duffy been able to show Senate administration he had   
   > a mortgage or a lease, he could have charged double that amount   
   >   
   > But the the allowance for per diems or meals is much higher — $86 for   
   > every day an out-of-town senator is in Ottawa on Senate business.   
   >   
   > Wright, an independently wealthy man who never personally charged   
   > expenses, didn't seem aware Duffy was charging per diems. When he found   
   > out, he told the RCMP, he was incensed that Duffy was getting paid for   
   > meals he ate in his own house in Ottawa.   
   >   
   > Once the Senate looked back at the entire four years of Duffy's Senate   
   > tenure, his ineligible private accommodation costs and per diems jumped   
   > to $80,000 with another $10,000 for interest, as well as the payback of   
   > claims Duffy said he mistakenly made while on vacation in Florida.   
   >   
   > Wright ended up reimbursing the entire amount out of his own pocket,   
   > saying in an email obtained by the RCMP, "I am beyond furious ... the   
   > money will be repaid."   
   Definitely a pig. Bad Harper appointment good that he is suspended and   
   hopefully facing judicial sanction.   
      
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