A top official in the Liberal Party government of former PM Jean Chretien admitted at the Gomery inquiry (into Liberal Party corruption) today, that he did launder money.
Gee. I would never have guessed. I mean it’s the Liberal Party. They’re so dang honest. About
every
thing
.
OTTAWA (CP) – Jean Carle, a former top aide to Jean Chretien and senior executive at the Business Development Bank of Canada, admitted Friday that he helped construct a phoney paper trail to conceal details of a $125,000 sponsorship deal.
Carle’s startling testimony, at the public inquiry into the federal sponsorship program, drew a tart observation from Justice John Gomery. “If this were a drug deal, it would be called money-laundering,” said Gomery.
“You’re not wrong,” Carle meekly replied.
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Carle, who had been director of operations for Chretien from 1993 to 1998, moved to the BDC as a senior vice-president when he left the Prime Minister’s Office.
It was at the bank that he got involved in the contentious deal that revolved around funding for a TV series, called Le Canada Millennaire, by producer Robert Scully.
The bank had already given $250,000 of its own to support the series. But the bank then agreed to act as a conduit in transferring an extra $125,000 to Scully’s production company, Information Essentielle.
The additional money originated with the Public Works Department.
But Pierre Tremblay, the department official then in charge of the sponsorship program, didn’t want it to show on his books, Carle testified.
Three weeks ago I blogged about how the Liberals preferred to use the term “dry clean” rather than “launder”, so arrogant and elitist are they.
But the funny thing, now that I review the tape, is that this “dry clean” quote had to do with yet another incident—not the one discussed today at the inquiry. So it appears there’s been a whole lot of laundry to do in the Liberal household!
[Francois Beaudoin, the former president of the Business Development Bank of Canada] maintained, among other things, that Lafleur and Carle proposed in 1999 to rent a corporate box for Canadiens hockey games at the Molson Centre in Montreal – but to cover up the fact that BDC was footing the bill by using Lafleur Communication as a front for the deal.
““We can do the dry-cleaning’,” Beaudoin quoted Lafleur as saying, with Carle’s apparent approval.
This is the biggest tangled web I’ve ever known in my life, with the possible exception of the U.N./Iraq Oil For Palaces scandal.
Oh yeah and…… Vote Liberal!
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