Mulroney cover-up
Former prime minister Brian Mulroney attempted to cover up cash payments of $300,000 he received from a secret account, Karlheinz Schreiber told CBC's The Fifth Estate.
That, unfortunately, isn't the cover-up I'm talking about. The $300,000 in cash Mulroney eventually admitted to receiving in hotel rooms, is linked to an investigation into the Airbus kickbacks scandal. At the time, the investigation into Mulroney's involvement didn't go anywhere and Mulroney sued the Canadian government for damaging his reputation and got a cool $2.1 million for his troubles.
So now that it is known that Mulroney actually did receive cash payments from Schreiber, just what is our intrepid RCMP doing about it?
Documents obtained by CBC News show that the Justice Department looked into whether or not it could attempt to recover the $2.1 million-settlement Mulroney received after revelations Mulroney had accepted cash payments from Schreiber.
But the RCMP shut down the investigation into Mulroney, even saying he'd never be charged again, without confirming whether or not Mulroney even got the money or what it might have been used for.
Shut the investigation down? The guy scammed the Canadian taxpayer out of an additional two million dollars based on his claim that he didn't receive any money from Schreiber, and after he is forced to admit that he did receive a quite nice sum from the man, in cash, the RCMP doesn't even think its worth looking in to. Whose right are these guys defending?
