Martin’s Get Out Of Jail Free Card

Captains Quarters has several posts on the testimony coming out of both Gomery and the Commons accounts committee. I’d suggest you just head over and start at the top, though I’ll provide a few key exerpts as appetizer;

The Sponsorship Program bought advertising at ten hunting and fishing shows from Gaetan Mondou for $100,000, who discovered yesterday that the man who bought them, Luc Lemay, told the government that they had cost over $1.8 million. The difference disappeared into the pockets of Jacques Corriveau, longtime pal of Jean Chr�tien and a man who doesn’t even fish.
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…the two inquiries now have started to air testimony that demonstrates Martin may well have participated in the same schemes as his former boss as well as parallel corruption supporting his chief of staff’s boyfriend.
It’s these developments that pushed the Liberals into the desperate move of blocking Harper from controlling Parliamentary business on Opposition Days as scheduled yesterday in order to gain time to recover …

And this, which should the opposition members should start trying to hammer home; that Martin’s delays have engineered the perpetrators a free “Get Out Of Jail Free” card by pushing the investigation past the absurdly brief 18 month statute of limitations.

Weston believes that much more promise may come from an independent financial audit from the same forensic accounting team that plumbed the depths of the Enron scandal. Insiders have told Weston that after going through the financial records of everyone involved in Adscam, including the front businesses and the subcontractors, the bagmen and the recipients of their cash, and of course the Liberal Party, they have a good idea who wound up with the lion’s share of the money.
They promise that the audit contains “pure political dynamite” — and that report will come to the Gomery Inquiry in the next few weeks. Canadians might even see some of the money returned, if it still exists in liquid form, but more likely will be tax-fraud charges that might survive the statute of limitations that prevent Adscammers from facing the consequences of their graft.

Well, they’ve been treating our money as though it was paper in their own political board game. I suppose we should have known there’d be a “Get Out Of Jail Free” card in the rules – after all, they wrote them.