Monday, May 31, 2010

Mr. Mulroney acted inappropriately

Mulroney acted inappropriately in accepting cash, inquiry finds - thestar.com

OTTAWA – A two-year inquiry into Brian Mulroney’s dealings with
German-Canadian arms lobbyist Karlheinz Schreiber has concluded that the
former prime minister acted in an “inappropriate” way when he accepted
large amounts of cash from Schreiber.


The report by Justice Jeffrey Oliphant said Mulroney “failed to
live up to the standard of conduct that he himself adopted in the 1985
ethics code.”


The judge said he could not accept Mulroney’s testimony that his
acceptance of at least $225,000 in cash was an error in judgment.
Rather, it was an attempt to hide the transactions, Oliphant said.

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