Old-school investigative journalism techniques have been most effectively demonstrated for the young'uns by Curtis and Maher in this recent piece.
Several people listed as donors to a Conservative riding association in Montreal say they did not make the donations attributed to them by the party.Soudas was recently mentioned in disclosures offered by witnesses in the Charbonneau Commission inquiry into corruption in construction contracts awarded in Quebec.
The donations – in the amounts of $333.33, $666.66 and $733.33– appear on the 2009 Elections Canada filing of the Conservative riding association of Laurier-Sainte-Marie, a downtown Montreal district [where] Conservative candidate Charles K. Langford, a businessman and professor, came fifth in the riding in 2008 and fourth in 2011.
From 2006 to 2009, the Conservative riding association collected $583,318.96 from 931 donations, many from people connected with engineering companies and law firms. It also distributed $376,739.36 – mostly to other ridings around Quebec. The Megantic-Lerable riding of Industry Minister Christian Paradis, for instance, received $41,841 in 2009.
[...]The Conservatives collected many donations at a big fundraising dinner held at Montreal’s Queen Elizabeth hotel on May 20, 2009, according to the riding’s financial officer, Benoit Larocque.
[...]Senator Leo Housakos, who was then Harper’s key organizer in Quebec, organized the event. Housakos, a close friend of Harper’s then-director of communications, Dimitri Soudas, did not respond to queries about his role in fundraising for the riding association.
More DJ! posts with regard to alleged CPC corruption, dodgy fundraising, voter suppression and illegal election undertakings can be found here, here, here, here and here.
Stephen Maher and his other colleague Glen McGregor deserve Jubilee Medals ... perhaps the Order of Canada for their steadfast investigations and reporting into the nefarious and possibly felonious activities of the CON party.
4 comments:
Agreed! Maher and McGregor are magnificent! Give them every journalistic award available for their dogged determination to get to the Truth and to share it with citizens!
Amazing that they are the only journalists who are actually interested in following this huge story. Maybe we won't see resolution to this election fraud but somewhere down the road, when the truth is finally revealed and accepted, Maher and McGregor will be considered heroes.
trouble is, it now appears their sources had faulty memories: the CPC Party has produced cheques from 7 of them; one has recanted publicly after being reminded by a colleague.
http://o.canada.com/2012/11/23/conservatives-produce-copies-of-cheques-from-riding-association-donors/
"...one has recanted publicly after being reminded by a colleague."
Oh. Did Tom Flanagan send out emails *reminding* them he knows where they live?
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