Just a while ago, I posted about today’s testimony at the Liberal Party corruption inquiry (and wiener roast!), and I quoted a news story. But then after doing some more reading and listening and thinking, it occurred to me: What happened to the rest of the $100,000?
Here’s the relevant parts:
Corbeil said Monday he received $5,000 in cash that he gave to organizers in Coderre’s Montreal riding of Bourassa after receiving the money in a sealed envelope from Michel Beliveau, then director of the Quebec wing.
He said Beliveau also gave him a second envelope of $4,000 for an east-end Montreal riding won by Liberal Yvon Charbonneau, a former labour leader.
And this one:
Beliveau, who Corbeil succeeded as head of the Quebec wing, told the inquiry last week he gave his then-assistant as much as $100,000 in an envelope for several ridings held by opposition parties.
So Beliveau, who shuffled off to work in Jean Chretien’s election campaign, said he had $100,000, of which Corbeil said he got $5,000, and then another $4,000, in envelopes full of cash, to dole out to Liberal Party ridings that were in danger of not being won.
So I figure there’s a $91,000 hole in that picture. And the man who said he had the cash, Beliveau, tootled off to work for our then leader, the benevolent Liberal Prime Minister Jean (“A proof is a proof”) Chretien.
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Did he take it with him to Chretien’s riding? Or any other ridings?
And of course this question:
Does anybody want a banana?
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