Mulroney's inquiry legal fees top $1.8M

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The federal government has reimbursed Brian Mulroney's lawyers more than $1.8 million for his legal costs related to the public inquiry probing the former prime minister's financial relationship with Karlheinz Schreiber, CBC News has learned.

Documents obtained under the Access to Information Act show that Mulroney's lawyers billed the federal government a total of $1,803,841 for work pertaining to Mulroney's appearance last year before the commission headed by Justice Jeffrey Oliphant.

They also show that the Ottawa law firm Borden, Ladner, Gervais, was paid in five instalments in 2009 and 2010.

The documents do not detail how many lawyers billed for their work, and is silent on the hourly rates, other than to say the maximum hourly rate was set at $250, and to a maximum of 10 hours per day.
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Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/05/17/mulroney-inquiry-legal-fees.html#ixzz0oFSpx5Np
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What a guy. After all this time he can still take Canadians for a couple million.