ridenrain ridenrain:
ADSCAM is far more recent than this Mulroney witch hunt.
Witch hunt?
I sort of agree, except who in their right mind accepts payments in a hotel room for hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, rightfully or not.
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A retired Mountie who helped write the Mulroney-era legislation that toughened up cash reporting requirements said it is "almost unbelievable" that former prime minister Brian Mulroney accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash from German-Canadian dealmaker Karlheinz Schreiber.
Bruce Bowie, a retired RCMP inspector, was appointed by the federal government in the late 1980s to help write Canada's Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) Act, a set of regulations that required banks, credit unions and other financial institutions to ask questions and retain records of customers who brought in more than $10,000 cash.
"I find it almost unbelievable that a former prime minister would ever [accept] that kind of amount of cash. It's almost unthinkable, you know," Mr. Bowie said from his office in Delta, B.C., where he owns a private investigation company.
It is hard to call this a witch hunt when you so obviously have an error in judgement like this one.
Mulroney explaining how his casual relationship with KH Schreiber worked Mulroney explaining how his casual relationship with KH Schreiber worked:
"Ya, we met for coffee, talked about the kids and the wives. He was thinking about buying a beach house near Lake Ontario. We ordered, I had the salmon, he had a light salad. Then he handed me a sweaty wad of cash, mostly 100's and 1000's . I didn't count it, but from the weight I guessed it was about $100k. We shared a half litre of the house wine...it was 1991 or so but I thought it would be best to wait until 1999 or so to claim it on my tax return."
