Prorogation: The Final Countdown?
That’s the next political move here, right? That’s what I’m hearing from my sources in the Conservative Party and PMO.
If you’re looking for YET ANOTHER CONSERVATIVE SCANDAL, someone might want to check out Senator Wallin’s NYC mortgage as well.
I already have.
I can’t think of a more worthy cause.
I mean, Stephen Harper was in New York City to lobby for the Keystone XL pipeline…and other things. I hope everyone remembers the days of 75 cent exchange rates on the American dollar. The early 90s are coming back!
Rob Ford, Toronto’s conservative mayor, is a wild lunatic given to making bizarre racist pronouncements and randomly slapping refrigerator magnets on cars. One reason for this is that he smokes crack cocaine. I know this because I watched him do it, on a videotape. He was fucking hiiiiigh. It’s for sale if you’ve got six figures.
In the interest of full disclosure, John Cook of Gawker also has copies of Julian Fantino-related material I provided to him a year ago. Nothing came of it on their end, obviously…unless someone finds the 2009 Gelato Cup photos of Fantino with nude women.
Sorry for the interruption, it was entirely the fault of what is supposed to be an independent organization - a term that apparently no longer exists in Canada.
Both brain and server reset. Everything should be back online shortly.
We’re going to take everything we have (minus some Robocalls and PMO documents that are clearly restricted material - which happen to be the crown jewels, with all due apologies to Jason Kenney), put it into a giant zip file, upload it on here, and distribute it to several other websites on the internet. Download and read at your pleasure. (Give us a few days to compile this. We will also post links to where other copies of the file will be available.)
About the documents we won’t put in the zip file, the most appropriate place for those is in the custody of an independent body of inquiry with strict evidence accountability and chain of custody procedures. It’s doubtful that will happen until sometime in 2015. Or they’ll be physically handed over to the press (that isn’t leaking information or sources back to ANYONE).
After all the files are uploaded and distributed, I’m personally walking away from all of this. It’s been over two years and many hours collecting all of this material and cultivating my sources - and frankly, I’m fucking exhausted, and it’s taking a serious toll on my health. I tried working with other media organizations, which didn’t work for the most part. I tried going through backchannels to Elections Canada, which obviously didn’t work. And as a last resort, I tried backchannels to Parliamentary parties, where the information was ignored (at their own peril).
So, this goes public, it gets distributed, and then this (website) goes away. What happens with all of the documents and disclosures will help to prove my theory on the health and function of Canadian democracy; good luck with that, because you’ll need it.
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Once I received a copy of the Jack Siegel/Eric Gillespie/Michael Di Biase email, I asked my confidential source why all of these court documents, motions, affidavits, and emails are bad for the Liberals and bad for Justin Trudeau. (I also asked about one of Justin Trudeau’s advisers that had been fooled into gaining the support of the Greater Toronto Area faux-Liberals who had been planning to engineer the defeat of the Liberal Party of Canada in the long term. Why? To get more Economic Action Plan stimulus money from the Conservatives in Ottawa — the first few phases consisting of several million dollars each are now unaccounted for.)
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[Redacted] may have contacted Justin Trudeau about Jack Siegel, but I really doubt the situation was outlined in full. Gerald Butts wasn’t contacted either.
Why is this bad for Trudeau and more specifically the Liberals?
Simple:
Michael Di Biase failed to report legal fees on his 2010 municipal election finance return and reported over $100,000 in legal fees expenses on his 2006 return. Di Biase claimed a deficit carry-forward (created by claiming the $100,000) to his 2010 expenses, and in 2010 personally pocketed tens of thousands in “donations” based on the deficit.
What the Siegel email proves is that Jack Siegel funneled the money from somebody to Eric Gillespie to pay for Di Biase’s legal fees. The legal expenses and “donations” were NEVER reported on his 2010 return, nor were the “donations” reported on Di Biase’s 2006 return.
Why is this serious? Because Jack Siegel assisted in laundering money for Di Biase. That’s the REAL reason why Di Biase filed a motion to seal all court documents, destroy them, and give Siegel copies. This is one of the key issues the police are looking at. And when the police proceed with these charges, EVERYONE is likely to be charged, including Siegel.
In January of this year (the meeting speeches are on YouTube) Michael Di Biase’s wife Eleana ran against Peter Meffe. Julian Fantino openly endorsed Peter Meffe (Fantino’s speech is also on YouTube) ….and DiBiase, of course, leveraged everything he had to get her nominated. Internally, Di Biase used Jack Siegel’s conflict against Fantino and the money laundering. He essentially tried to get Peter Meffe to step down to have Eleana acclaimed. (This started the developer war in Vaughan.)
Steven Del Duca (who is Siegel’s and Bevilacqua’s minion) apparently was the broker for this deal. The negotiations happened during the Ontario Liberal Party convention where Wynne was elected head of the party and where Del Duca and Siegel were co-chairs of the leadership convention. Bevilacqua, Siegel, and Del Duca met during the convention and a deal was made. Del Duca started pushing Bevilacqua as a candidate for the Liberals after that, constantly singing his praises — he spent more than half his introductory speech when Justin Trudeau was in town praising Bevilacqua.
That’s why Justin Trudeau and the Liberals are in trouble. When these documents are made public on Wednesday, Fantino will retaliate. Fantino has copies of the Siegel emails, the motion and all motion materials. (Bevilacqua continues to play both sides and Vaughan City Council is split with half Liberals and half Conservatives/PCs.)
Fantino is going to use Siegel’s involvement in producing the affidavits to attack Trudeau and the Liberals as the Elections Canada affidavits were written by their lawyer (Siegel). It fucks everybody because these are nothing more than politically motivated attacks which attack Justin Trudeau’s good name.
Julian Fantino, Sam Ciccollini, and the local developers who hate Di Biase (and there’s a lot of them) are going after Di Biase et al for the money laundering thing. We all suspect we know the developer who gave Siegel the money to pay Eric Gillespie for Di Biase’s $100,000 legal fees.
So, long story short: Blaney just fucked the Liberal Party of Canada royally.
Jack Siegel, lawyer for the Liberal Party of Canada, has been working for the Tories as well — mostly some funneling and laundering of illegal campaign donations/debt repayment for Julian Fantino and Michael Di Biase (with help from Eric Gillespie), respectively. We’re talking north of $100,000 between 2006 and 2010. Most of the money went to pay for other Toronto-area Conservative MP candidates in 2011, which went unreported on expense reports submitted to Elections Canada.
Of course, Julian Fantino’s money ended up offshore — RBC’s Nassau and Cayman Islands branches. Only one foreign country has the resources to track these offshore money movements…and CSIS might have had a role in fucking over their Department of Justice in the past few days.
I sat on this particular email for a while because of my loyalties to the Liberal Party of Canada. I called several times. I emailed the party headquarters. I had a courier try to deliver the bad news to the Papineau constituency office (who refused to help); eventually it was delivered to the Liberal Party of Canada (Quebec) headquarters. It should’ve arrived in Ottawa sooner. I also emailed this to a senior MP in the party as well as sent a final email to the party headquarters today. (Ticket number 5016.) I have all my attempts to alert you guys on record…and no one ever contacted me back. It’s all being released publicly by the courts in Ontario tomorrow, so it doesn’t matter by now.
And we tried to warn you several weeks ago via a staffer who has requested anonymity.
I’m really sorry about this one.
Conservative Party lawyer Arthur Hamilton has been feeding information to Elections Canada and instructing Al Mathews (and the RMG employees working for Elections Canada) on how to investigate. Michael Sona is completely innocent.
An independent inquiry needs to be formed so that the RCMP can seize (as soon as possible) and run a forensic investigation on all Conservative Party communications since the run-up to the 2008 general election.
Given who approved the robocalls as a tactic, it’s very likely that the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff knew about the operation…along with Mr. Harper himself.
Oh, and now TWO Cabinet members are formally under investigation by Elections Canada. Absolutely verified.
Postmedia has been leaking off the record and confidential sources/information back to the Conservative Party executives and the Prime Minister’s Office.
