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   From: gregcarrsober@gmail.com   
      
   On 17/03/2014 11:34 AM, {~_~} Раиса wrote:   
   > . . .  points to the opposition parties.   
   >   
   > ANOTHER Conservative staffer and aide that is accused of fraud and   
   > breach of trust. Has anyone else noticed that these types are almost   
   > exclusively from the rightwing parties? Has anyone else noticed that   
   > these types are being CHARGED by the RCMP?   
   >   
   > Has anyone else noticed that Stephen Harper is busy meddling in overseas   
   > countries' issues - while Canada burns?   
   > ____________________________________   
   > The Canadian Press Posted: Mar 17, 2014   
   >   
   >   
   > Hubert Pichet, ex-Tory Senate staffer, accused of fraud, breach of trust   
   > Accusations relate to the awarding of contracts   
   >   
   >   
   > A former Conservative Senate staffer has been swept up in a corruption   
   > investigation and is facing charges relating to the awarding of contracts.   
   >   
   > The RCMP said Monday it has filed five charges against former Senate   
   > policy adviser Hubert Pichet, 58.   
   >   
   > The charges include fraud against the federal government and breach of   
   > trust by a public official.   
   >   
   > "Claiming that he could influence the awarding of contracts, Pichet   
   > allegedly received money from companies wanting to do business with the   
   > government," the Mounties said in a statement.   
   >   
   > An RCMP spokesman declined to comment further on the charges.   
   >   
   > The Prime Minister's Office issued a one-line statement about the   
   > charges: "Those who break the law must be held responsible for their   
   > actions."   
   >   
   > A lawyer by trade, Pichet was most recently a Senate policy adviser   
   > between 2007 and 2011, but has long had ties to the Tories. He ran   
   > unsuccessfully for the Conservatives in the 2008 election.   
   >   
   > He served as an assistant to Tory senator Pierre-Claude Nolin and   
   > previously worked as an aide to former Conservative prime minister Brian   
   > Mulroney.   
   >   
   > Pichet's name emerged during 2010 hearings into the controversy over a   
   > $9-million contract to renovate Parliament Hill's West Block that was   
   > given to a masonry business owned by Paul Sauvé. The RCMP then began   
   > investigating the contract.   
   >   
   > Pichet was linked to the contract through the testimony of the late   
   > Gilles Varin, a lobbyist with Conservative ties who Sauvé said he paid   
   > $140,000 to help him secure the lucrative deal.   
   >   
   > Sauvé's company, LM Sauvé, went bankrupt a year later and he lost the   
   > contract.   
   >   
   > Varin said he introduced Sauvé to Pichet in a Montreal restaurant in   
   > 2007 and that two men talked for a few minutes.   
   >   
   > Pichet told Radio-Canada he was asked by Varin about contacts in the   
   > Public Works Department, but his involvement ended there. Varin died in   
   > 2011.   
   >   
   > Sauvé donated to Pichet's campaign when the latter ran for the Tories in   
   > an east-end Montreal riding in 2008.   
   >   
   > Pichet is to appear in court on May 1 in Montreal.   
   Figures he is one of Lyin'Brian's cronies.   
      
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