Inquiry Faults Canada’s Ex-Premier on Cash From Lobbyist

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Source: NYT

OTTAWA — A Canadian government inquiry found Monday that former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney had acted inappropriately when he accepted “cash-stuffed envelopes” during three meetings with a German arms and aviation lobbyist.

In a harshly worded four-volume report, Justice Jeffrey J. Oliphant, who led the inquiry, repeatedly questioned the credibility of Mr. Mulroney and of the lobbyist, Karlheinz Schreiber, a German-born businessman who handed the former prime minister $225,000 to $300,000 in thousand-dollar bills in three separate meetings. The meetings took place after Mr. Mulroney had stepped down as prime minister.

The meetings, Justice Oliphant said in a news conference, go “a long way, in my view, to supporting my position that the financial dealings between Mr. Schreiber and Mr. Mulroney were inappropriate.”

Mr. Mulroney, who was prime minister from September 1984 to June 1993, said in a statement that he was “grateful that this unfortunate chapter is over,” adding, “I will leave it to others to assess the full impact of these events.”

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/01/world/americas/01canada.html

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Ok, let's see. A quarter million bucks in cash, handed over in envelopes, and not claimed on his taxes until seven years later (when he started worrying he would be found out) and it took ac$16 million to tell Canadians that was "inappropriate"?????

This Mulroney PM, a good buddy of Reagan, was a crook.

[LakeSamish706]

1. He is a righty, what else needs to be said? n/t

[rurallib]

2. Well you can bet that will never happen here.

Someone being convicted, I mean.

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4. He isn't being convicted....an inquiry has no legal/criminal implications...

..it's merely an official report issuing process headed up by a judge with powers to gather information.

He's in the clear.

[polly7]

3. Ha ha. This makes me happy.

The most hated man in Canada (unofficial nationwide poll) deserves this shame, the crook! I hope the "full impact of these events" catches up with him in a bad way ............. and if I posted what I really wanted to about him, I'd be banned.