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As Progressive Conservative Leader Patrick Brown promotes his new “People’s Guarantee” campaign platform on a barnstorming tour of Ontario this week, police are stepping up a criminal probe into fraud allegations at a Tory nomination.
Hamilton police detectives are investigating unnamed Conservative officials in connection with the party’s May 7 candidate election in the riding of Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas.
Sources told the Star that police were conducting interviews with potential witnesses on Saturday at the same time as Brown was unveiling his 78-page, 147-promise election manifesto to 1,500 Tories at the Toronto Congress Centre.
Rick Dykstra, the PC Party president, said officials are co-operating fully with the criminal investigation and the Tories’ lawyer, Peter Brauti, has emphasized that “as far as I know, they’re not looking at the leader; they’re not looking at the party.”
According to court documents filed by police last Wednesday, Det. Const. Adam Jefferess obtained an “order of detention” to keep as potential evidence a slew of material handed over at PC Party headquarters on Bay St. a month ago.
“The following items were turned over to me: two brown cardboard boxes (box one — Ontario PC Party ballots; box two — Credential Referrals Forms, two binders containing emails including a selection of emails that were stapled together), and two USB drives containing digital copies of the same emails,” Jefferess said in a “report to a justice” filed at the Hamilton courthouse.
Fraud investigation casts cloud over Ontario Progressive Conservatives’ platform launch | Toronto Star
Well, this should play out in an interesting manner.
Hamilton police detectives are investigating unnamed Conservative officials in connection with the party’s May 7 candidate election in the riding of Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas.
Sources told the Star that police were conducting interviews with potential witnesses on Saturday at the same time as Brown was unveiling his 78-page, 147-promise election manifesto to 1,500 Tories at the Toronto Congress Centre.
Rick Dykstra, the PC Party president, said officials are co-operating fully with the criminal investigation and the Tories’ lawyer, Peter Brauti, has emphasized that “as far as I know, they’re not looking at the leader; they’re not looking at the party.”
According to court documents filed by police last Wednesday, Det. Const. Adam Jefferess obtained an “order of detention” to keep as potential evidence a slew of material handed over at PC Party headquarters on Bay St. a month ago.
“The following items were turned over to me: two brown cardboard boxes (box one — Ontario PC Party ballots; box two — Credential Referrals Forms, two binders containing emails including a selection of emails that were stapled together), and two USB drives containing digital copies of the same emails,” Jefferess said in a “report to a justice” filed at the Hamilton courthouse.
Fraud investigation casts cloud over Ontario Progressive Conservatives’ platform launch | Toronto Star
Well, this should play out in an interesting manner.
