No jail time, huh? Gee, when do I start acting surprised? Who appointed the judge who heard the case? A Liberal? No—couldn’t be.
But the really remarkable thing—no scratch that. The other thing about this story is: find the word “Liberal” in the story. No, it doesn’t appear once. Not once. Not in the whole story. The story has nothing to do with Liberals, see?
The story was written by nameless Liberal*Vision (see Lexicon) news “staff” at CTV.ca. Get used to it. Soon, this story will have utterly nothing to do with the Liberal Party, and the word “scandal” will also be dropped in favor of “incident”. In this story, the Liberal Party sponsorship scandal has morphed into “federal sponsorship scandal”.
So let me fill in the blanks for you: As intelligent, sane people who aren’t liberal-left sheep know, this story is manifestly about the Liberal Party and its sponsorship corruption scandal. The one Justice Gomery is looking into. The biggest political corruption scandal in the history of our nation. The one where Canada’s Auditor-General said, and I quote: “This is such a blatant misuse of public funds. It is shocking… Words escape me.” Sponsorgate. Adscam. Or what I like to call the Chretien/Martin Liberal Party Corruption Scandal—but then I’m biased, unlike the good folks at Liberal*Vision.
Coffin gets conditional sentence for fraud
Paul Coffin, the first person convicted of fraud in the federal sponsorship scandal, has received a conditional sentence of two years less a day, to be served in the community.
Coffin, the president of Coffin Communications, must obey a curfew of 9 p.m. on weekdays and must also speak publicly about his experience.
Coffin pleaded guilty to 15 of the 18 counts of fraud laid against him in September 2003. Under the plea agreement reached in May, he admitted to helping defraud the federal government of $1,556,625 between 1997 and 2002.
In August, he told a sentencing hearing that he had repaid $1 million to Ottawa by taking out a mortgage on his home, getting loans from friends and cashing in an RRSP.
“I would like to apologize to all Canadians,’’ Coffin told the Montreal court, adding he was ashamed of what he had done.
Crown prosecutor Francois Drolet told the sentencing hearing that he was not impressed by Coffin’s testimony and suggested the court send a “clear message’’ by sentencing Coffin to 34 months in jail.
Coffin’s lawyers suggested a sentence of two years less a day—the sentence that Coffin received.
The maximum sentence he could have received was 10 years. [… (“Liberal” doesn’t appear in the remainder either, no – go and look for it if you want) …]
Nope! No liberal media here!
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