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Wernick: "The PM assured [Wilson-Raybould] in my presence in September, and in writing in December, that the decision about prosecution was always hers to take."

Wilson-Raybould told the committee that her staff are not authorized to speak to the Director of Public Prosecutions, but she told the PM she would go over the issue once more with her department.

JWR "As a result, I agreed to, and undertook to the prime minister that I would have a conversation with my deputy and the clerk, but that these conversations would not change my mind," Wilson-Raybould testified.

Her deputy said there was NO discussion about SNC with her. So JWR lied to JT, perhaps Wernick found out she did not do as promised so JT decided to dump her at AG... Wernick could possibly have asked her AG if SNC had been discussed with JWR, Wernick FYI is the boss of ALL DMs. (sorta like the PM for Bureaucrats.)
 

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Wernick: "The PM assured [Wilson-Raybould] in my presence in September, and in writing in December, that the decision about prosecution was always hers to take."

Wilson-Raybould told the committee that her staff are not authorized to speak to the Director of Public Prosecutions, but she told the PM she would go over the issue once more with her department.

JWR "As a result, I agreed to, and undertook to the prime minister that I would have a conversation with my deputy and the clerk, but that these conversations would not change my mind," Wilson-Raybould testified.

Her deputy said there was NO discussion about SNC with her. So JWR lied to JT, perhaps Wernick found out she did not do as promised so JT decided to dump her at AG... Wernick could possibly have asked her AG if SNC had been discussed with JWR, Wernick FYI is the boss of ALL DMs. (sorta like the PM for Bureaucrats.)
LOL, IMNSHO the OP must have meant "…asked her DM"; JWR is the AG.

But it does raise the question of why PM thought the Clerk of the PC, who is merely the PM's DM and just a salaried swivel servant, should make it his business to boss around an elected MP and Minister of the Crown.
 

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Wernick: "The PM assured [Wilson-Raybould] in my presence in September, and in writing in December, that the decision about prosecution was always hers to take."

Wilson-Raybould told the committee that her staff are not authorized to speak to the Director of Public Prosecutions, but she told the PM she would go over the issue once more with her department.

JWR "As a result, I agreed to, and undertook to the prime minister that I would have a conversation with my deputy and the clerk, but that these conversations would not change my mind," Wilson-Raybould testified.

Her deputy said there was NO discussion about SNC with her. So JWR lied to JT, perhaps Wernick found out she did not do as promised so JT decided to dump her at AG... Wernick could possibly have asked her AG if SNC had been discussed with JWR, Wernick FYI is the boss of ALL DMs. (sorta like the PM for Bureaucrats.)


Are you stupid???

Criminal fraud & corruption charge in Quebec beside outside Canada( Libya bribe scandals ) and also election acts fraud charge in Canada all this event occurs in Canada:
1) Criminal frauds & corruption charges Montreal Jacque Cartier Bridge ( https://www.thestar.com/news/canada...ontreal-bridge-contract-documents-reveal.html )

2) Criminal frauds & corruption charge in Montreal McGill SuperHospital ( https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/snc-lavalin-ceo-guilty-fraud-************-duhaime-1.5001839 )

3) Election frauds acts to Liberal Party & to Conservative Party
( https://globalnews.ca/news/4215730/...with-illegal-federal-political-contributions/ )

The Montreal-based company agreed in 2016 to a compliance agreement, which detailed almost $118,000 in donations to the Liberal and Conservative parties through company employees or their spouses who were then reimbursed by SNC-Lavalin. The improperly donated sums included: $83,534.51 to the Liberal Party of Canada; $13,552.13 to various Liberal riding associations; $12,529.12 to four contestants in the 2006 Liberal leadership race, including $5,000 each to Michael Ignatieff and Bob Rae; $3,137.73 to the Conservative Party of Canada; and $5,050 to various Conservative riding associations.

They quietly pleaded guilty
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/election-financing-snclavalin-charbonneau-1.4984823

4) Libya bribes occurs in Canada & outside Canada
https://business.financialpost.com/...raud-and-corruption-linked-to-libyan-projects

The company is already facing a 10 year-ban on bidding on development contracts funded by the World Bank related to allegations of corruption in North Africa, some of the same allegations that could lead to federal charges.

SNC-Lavalin is accused of bribing Libyan officials with some $48 million between 2001 and 2011 and defrauding organizations in that country of $130 million.

Among the more sensational claims is that they paid for lavish trips and more for relatives of former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi and even had some on payroll to ensure they got lucrative contracts.

Former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi arrives at Ciampino airport in Rome on August 29, 2010. (Photo by Ernesto Ruscio/Getty Images)
While some supporters of the firm have dismissed bribes such as this as just part of doing business in the third world, SNC-Lavalin isn’t immune to bribery allegations here at home.

In Canada though, the company has not been charged, until recently. Mostly it has been executives of the firm facing jail time which has allowed the company to claim that the bad executives are no longer with them and the company is changing its ways.


Therefore as in baseball 3 strike you out!

5) Not criminal yet! But don't pass the smell test"
Money began to rain on Trudeau Foundation once Justin took over Liberals, analysis shows
nationalpost.com
https://www.google.ca/search?ei=o92.........0i71j0j0i22i30j33i160j33i21.zFvXB_rbAB8

Former SNC-Lavalin CEO Listed As Past Donor To Trudeau Foundation
https://www.spencerfernando.com/201...o-listed-as-past-donor-to-trudeau-foundation/

PS NO DPA for SNC Lavelin!!

PPS Are you stupid??? Blinded for your love for Trudeau and willing to overlook liberal ( PMO) corruption??
 

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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/pol...ns-say-charges-against-snc-lavalin-should-go/

More than half of Canadians say charges against SNC-Lavalin should go to criminal trial: poll
MICHELLE ZILIO PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS REPORTER
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UPDATED MARCH 3, 2019
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More than half of Canadians say fraud and corruption charges against SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. should go to a criminal trial rather than a negotiated settlement where the Montreal engineering and construction giant would pay fines and avoid prosecution, according to a new survey.

The numbers, provided exclusively to The Globe and Mail and CTV News, are based on a Nanos poll of 750 Canadians from Feb. 28 to March 1. The poll comes after testimony from former justice minister and attorney-general Jody Wilson-Raybould to a parliamentary justice committee on Feb. 27, when she alleged “consistent and sustained” political pressure from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other senior officials to shelve the criminal prosecution of SNC-Lavalin.

Before the committee, Ms. Wilson-Raybould alleged inappropriate conduct on the part of Mr. Trudeau and 11 people in the Prime Minister’s Office, the Privy Council Office and the Office of the Minister of Finance. This included Mr. Trudeau’s chief of staff, Katie Telford, and former principal secretary Gerald Butts, as well as Privy Council Clerk Michael Wernick, Finance Minister Bill Morneau and his chief of staff, Ben Chin. The committee will hear this week from Mr. Butts, who resigned shortly after Ms. Wilson-Raybould quit cabinet on Feb. 12, and hear again from Mr. Wernick.

SNC-Lavalin, Jody Wilson-Raybould and Trudeau’s PMO: The story so far

SNC-Lavalin, which is facing criminal charges over allegations of bribery in Libya between 2001 and 2011, has been seeking a negotiated settlement in which a company admits wrongdoing and pays a fine, but avoids a trial. Last September, however, the federal director of public prosecutions, Kathleen Roussel, informed the company that the prosecution would continue.

Ms. Wilson-Raybould could have publicly directed Ms. Roussel to settle the charges against SNC and allow a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA). She chose not to and was later shuffled out of the justice portfolio to veterans affairs, a move largely seen as a demotion. The final decision in the SNC-Lavalin case rested with her as attorney-general.

Mr. Trudeau said he disagrees with Ms. Wilson-Raybould’s characterization of discussions she had with him and others about the case. The Liberal government has insisted she was not directed to change her mind, and has frequently invoked the Shawcross Doctrine, a legal principle, to defend its right to discuss with an attorney-general the economic consequences of allowing a company to be prosecuted and convicted.

In the Nanos poll, 55 per cent of Canadians nationally think SNC-Lavalin should face a criminal trial, while 35 per cent said they prefer remediation and 10 per cent said they were unsure. Respondents were asked the same questions from Feb. 23 to 26, before Ms. Wilson-Raybould’s testimony to the committee, and reported similar results: 53 per cent in support of a criminal trial, 35 per cent for remediation and 12 per cent unsure.
 

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Crime Scene one ( fraud) : Montreal 2011

************ Duhaime, a jaunty mining engineer, was at the top of his game. The long-time SNC-Lavalin employee, who worked his way up the proverbial ladder, had been CEO for two years. With the appointment, he had joined Canada’s corporate royalty, and the kingdom looked healthy and robust.

In 2011, the company celebrated 100 years of dam, mine and bridge building. A darling of Canadian investors, SNC-Lavalin was growing rapidly with more than 30,000 employees. It had completed thousands of engineering projects in nearly 100 countries.

Lucrative contracts had been secured in British Columbia and Libya. The new prison SNC-Lavalin was going to build on orders from dictator Muammar Gaddafi would be according “to international human rights standards,” the company assured the Globe and Mail.

Contract workers from Thailand and the Philippines had been hired for the job. The company also boasted it had just won a $1.3-billion contract to build for McGill University “Canada’s largest healthcare facility.” Duhaime earned a cool $5 million a year. Investors were happy.

Duhaime touted his leadership style as careful and measured. In a video made for Canadian Business magazine he said running things right was all about “bringing the team with you, not to run in front of the team and hope they will follow.”

The company’s 2010 annual report declared it knew “how to get it done anywhere in the world.” Gwyn Morgan, shale gas baron and political advisor to former B.C. premier Christy Clark, chaired SNC-Lavalin’s board of directors and praised the firm’s commitment to integrity and transparency.

But towards fall 2011, two cracks appeared in SNC-Lavalin’s fortress. The RCMP raided company offices in Ontario over allegations of bribery on a bridge contract in Bangladesh. (The World Bank would later ban the company from doing any business on its projects for 10 years.)

The bigger crack occurred at home in Montreal. Former Montreal police chief Jacques Duchesneau leaked to a journalist a shelved government report he wrote, and it went off like a bomb in Quebec politics.

Duchesneau explained how Quebec’s construction industry, of which SNC-Lavalin formed a vital part, defrauded the public on big contracts and used the gains to fund municipal, provincial and federal political parties.

Duchesneau also diagrammed the mechanism. Corrupt civil servants allowed companies to drive up the price of public works contracts and then companies plowed a portion of their profits back into the political cartels that permitted such behaviour.

The report gave examples but without names. An engineering firm would stipulate that 1,000 trucks would be needed to haul gravel on a project when 100 trucks could handle the job. The surplus cash went to organized crime, engineering firms and political parties.

As calls for public inquiry mounted that fall, SNC-Lavalin’s Duhaime said it wasn’t needed. Quebec didn’t have any more corruption and collusion problems than anyone else, said Duhaime, and the Liberal provincial government of Jean Charest could surely handle these allegations. (Charest was opposed to an investigation too.)

Moreover, SNC-Lavalin had a “policy of zero tolerance for unwanted behaviour.”

Six months later, Duhaime, the zero tolerance man, left SNC-Lavalin after an independent review found that he had approved $56 million in payments to undisclosed agents.

Nearly a year later, Quebec’s anti-corruption police arrested Duhaime for fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud and using forged documents over the company’s contract to design, build and maintain the “super hospital.”

In 2019, Duhaime pled guilty to one of 14 charges. The court sentenced him to house arrest for 20 months and fined him $200,000.

DuhaimeArrested.jpg
************ Duhaime leaves Quebec national police headquarters in Montreal on Nov. 28, 2012, after his arrest related to SNC-Lavalin’s contract to build a hospital. Photo by Graham Hughes, Canadian Press.
 

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Scene two: Montreal, The Charbonneau Commission

Duchesneau was right about the mechanism.

Between 2011 and 2015 the Charbonneau Commission investigated Quebec’s construction industry and found corruption galore involving the misappropriation of half a billion dollars of taxpayers’ money. “Dirty money” funded the province’s politics.


The schemes were both simple and complex. Engineering firms “financed municipal candidates and organized their elections in order to obtain a large share of public contracts in municipalities, notably on the outskirts of Montréal.”

In a province where public works contracts totaled $7 billion a year, engineering companies colluded to restrict market share. The engineering firms approved a claim for fake upgrades submitted by a construction firm in exchange for a kickback on the resulting payment.

Sometimes companies merely financed political parties with the general goal of maintaining market share. As one expert testified, “political contributions are more profitable and less risky for companies in search of influence than bribing public employees.”

After the commission tabled its findings, SNC-Lavalin and other companies eventually repaid $95 million back to the municipalities and school boards they had overbilled over 20 years.
 

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Scene three: November 2018, Beothuck Building, St. Johns, Newfoundland

As engineer Paul Harrington took the stand, he looked a tad uncomfortable before the inquiry on Muskrat Falls hydro project.

The commission wanted to know how a $6.5-billion hydro project became the $13-billion financial calamity that could bankrupt the province.

Under intense questioning, Harrington, the project’s director for the crown utility Nalcor, admitted that he had never overseen a mega-project before, let alone a hydro project. In the past he had mostly worked on oil and gas projects in Alberta and Newfoundland.

SNC-Lavalin, of course, played a role. In 2011 it had won the engineering, procurement and construction management contract for the project.

But, as Harrington related, the company was a bit distracted by fraud and corruption allegations over its business dealings in Libya.

Nalcor had expected SNC-Lavalin to show up with an A team but a B team appeared instead, said Harrington. Nalcor then struggled with a succession of project managers, poor controls, missed deadlines.

“And, at the time, and I think I need to say this clearly, that the SNC that we see today is much different from the SNC that we were experiencing at the time,” said Harrington.

“They were going through some very difficult situations; accusations of corruption at senior SNC leadership levels. We, you know — the CEO disappeared, he was finally — he was, you know, arrested on corruption charges. All of the people that we had negotiated the EPCM contract with had gone. And there was a lot of public pressure for us to, you know, to — why are SNC on the project? That was difficult to keep people motivated.”

Muskrat Falls hydro dam overruns doubled its cost to $13.5 billion. SNC-Lavalin’s corruption woes helped derail the project, said a top engineer for Newfoundland’s crown utility.
In the end, Nalcor took over the project, which went over budget and over schedule and is now the subject of an inquiry.

Harrington said he didn’t want to talk too much about optimism bias or the tendency of engineers to lowball the costs of projects to win political approval.

Instead he preferred to talk about “hindsight bias.”

“We got the other bias as well, which is hindsight bias. And hindsight bias is again, I believe to be — you know, it’s so easy to fall into that trap that — you know, hindsight bias is also called I-knew-it-all-along syndrome, or creeping determinism.”
 

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This is just another totally irrelevant regurgitation of Trudeau claiming that he did not direct the AG.

That has never been the issue.
 

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Scene four: 2013 Montreal, Charbonneau Commission

Over three days of testimony, Yves Cadotte, SNC-Lavalin’s vice president of transportation and infrastructure, explained the intricacies of contributing to political parties. They eagerly solicited cash, said Cadotte, and he would often deliver the money in briefcases containing between $70,000 and $200,000.

To participate or not participate posed a risk. “That’s the dilemma: not contributing would be a risk that is perhaps intangible,” he said. “Maybe there is no (consequence), but in our mind it’s a risk we don’t necessarily want to take.”

Cadotte also admitted SNC-Lavalin had broken the law. Given that it is illegal in Quebec for corporations to donate to political parties directly, Cadotte described the company’s “straw men” scheme. Executives would ask middle managers and often their wives to donate $1,000 (the personal limit) to a particular party. The company would later reimburse them come bonus time.

In this manner, scores of SNC-Lavalin employees donated more than $1 million to the Quebec Liberal Party and the Parti Quebecois between 1998 and 2010. As Cadotte explained to the commission, “there’s still a party that’s in power and a market that’s important to us. So we want to ensure we continue to be able to conduct our activities and we respond favourably to these requests that are made to us.”


Quebec’s chief electoral officer fined Cadotte a record $245,000 in February 2015 on charges of encouraging scores of SNC-Lavalin employees to make political contributions to Quebec Liberal Party and Parti Quebecois.

In 2016, SNC-Lavalin made an interesting deal with Elections Canada called a “compliance agreement.” The agreement noted that SNC-Lavalin illegally donated $118,000 to the federal Liberal and Conservative Parties between 2004 and 2011 using the same straw man scheme.

The bulk of the money, $100,000, went to the Liberal Party of Canada.

The voluntary compliance agreement, a sort of federal slap on the wrist, meant that SNC-Lavalin executives had now read Canada’s Elections Act and updated the company’s code of conduct. The agreement “does not constitute an admission of guilt under criminal law.”
 

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The unfinished scene

In 2015, SNC-Lavalin’s then CEO Robert Card, an American engineer, realized the company could be banned from bidding on federal contracts if the government’s slow-moving Libya prosecution went to court.

He then mused that the company should “arrange a deferred prosecution agreement with Ottawa to avoid prosecution and developments that might jeopardize the company’s work.”

Orwellian sounding “deferred prosecution agreements” or “no prosecution agreements” are all the rage in the U.K. and the U.S. When faced with the prospect of prosecuting a large company with many employees for economic crimes, governments can grant leniency with a DPA instead. The company must admit to its wrongdoing and change its behaviour.

The moral hazard of such agreements is great. “If you do not punish crimes, there’s really no reason they won’t happen again,” Mary Ramirez, a professor at Washburn University School of Law and a former assistant United States attorney told the New York Times.

“I worry and so do a lot of economists that we have created no disincentives for committing fraud or white-collar crime.”

A bevy of SNC-Lavalin lobbyists went to work arguing for the addition of a deferred prosecution agreement in Canada’s Criminal Code in 2016. Two years later they got their wish as the Trudeau government included “the SNC-Lavalin clause” in the Criminal Code in an omnibus bill C-74.

Why Wilson-Raybould Was Right
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The prime minister or his office then let it be known to then attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould they would prefer she defer prosecution. What pressure did they apply? The facts are not yet clear.

But we know she refused and the mechanism hit an unexpected roadblock that has developed into a national political scandal.

The Charbonneau Commission clearly highlighted what is at stake:

“According to the principle of the rule of law, no one is above the law: all individuals are subject to it, including those exercising political power. This principle also aims to protect individuals from the arbitrariness of public authorities, in that the state cannot coerce an individual in the absence of statutory authority to do so.” [Tyee]
 

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Scene two: Montreal, The Charbonneau Commission

Duchesneau was right about the mechanism.

Between 2011 and 2015 the Charbonneau Commission investigated Quebec’s construction industry and found corruption galore involving the misappropriation of half a billion dollars of taxpayers’ money. “Dirty money” funded the province’s politics.

The schemes were both simple and complex. Engineering firms “financed municipal candidates and organized their elections in order to obtain a large share of public contracts in municipalities, notably on the outskirts of Montréal.”

In a province where public works contracts totaled $7 billion a year, engineering companies colluded to restrict market share. The engineering firms approved a claim for fake upgrades submitted by a construction firm in exchange for a kickback on the resulting payment.

Sometimes companies merely financed political parties with the general goal of maintaining market share. As one expert testified, “political contributions are more profitable and less risky for companies in search of influence than bribing public employees.”

After the commission tabled its findings, SNC-Lavalin and other companies eventually repaid $95 million back to the municipalities and school boards they had overbilled over 20 years.
You think this only happens in Quebec? Open your eyes a bit. It's all over Ontario. Quebec is the first to try and clean it up. SNC is actually suing its ex ceo for loss of reputation
 

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You think this only happens in Quebec? Open your eyes a bit. It's all over Ontario. Quebec is the first to try and clean it up. SNC is actually suing its ex ceo for loss of reputation
My eyes are wide open!! You should open your eyes??

SNC Lavelin also probably did fraud in Newfoundland( muskrat falls)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/muskrat-snc-turmoil-1.4917827

In the past SNC Lavelin ( shareholders, employees, managers, pensioners) reaped the rewards/ positive benefits of winning the contracts with fraud & bribery ..hence higher share price, bonus, dividends, and profits) It time to reaped the costs / punishment & negative benefits when they got caught . Time to paid the pipers for their misdeed!!
Sueing EX-CEO is not enough!! Time for messages to send to all corporations who think their above the law!!

I pretty sure if you way back SNC lavelin all past CEOs history there probably is a cultures of bribes & frauds! Time to audit all past CEO's in SNC lavelin and the Board of Directors to see what else " skeletons is hidden in their SNC Lavelin closet in the pasts 10 or 20 years or 30 years).

What else funny business SNC lavelin did ?
ex-ceo is not the only CEO involved in fraud & corruption.
Time to audit and check all previous ex - CEOs all board of directors of SNC lavelin for frauds!


PS Keeping trying to spin the bullshit to justify PMO sure make you look stupid!
PPS JOdy did her due diligentce .. NOOOO DPA for SNC Lavelin!!
PMO Truth.. NOT!!!
 

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My eyes are wide open!! You should open your eyes??

SNC Lavelin also probably did fraud in Newfoundland( muskrat falls)
Ah, so you think Trudeau's government ultimately came up with the correct decision in regards to SNC.
Good to know.
 

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Ah, so you think Trudeau's government ultimately came up with the correct decision in regards to SNC.
Good to know.


Stop putting words in my mouth! You are a liar & fraud..just like Trudeau! Time to hold an royal commission and inquiry ! Time to arrest Trudeau!

Also no where in my any of my posting do I believe Trudeau version and I don't favour any DPA for SNC lavlin .

Here more to think about:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/snc-lavalin-corruption-dpa-what-happens-next-1.5049456
5 things we may never know about the SNC-Lavalin scandal



Without a trial or broader probe, Canadians could be left in the dark about company's history of corruption

Dave Seglins, Rachel Houlihan · CBC News · Posted: Mar 09, 2019 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

The prosecution of SNC-Lavalin is largest corporate corruption case in Canadian history, complete with $50 million in foreign bribes, ties to a bloody dictator and a foiled smuggling plot. (Patrick Morrell/CBC)
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The prosecution of SNC-Lavalin is proceeding full-steam ahead, with a preliminary hearing already underway in Montreal. A criminal trial is possible within a year.

That is unless the Trudeau government hands the Quebec company a get-out-of-jail-free card in the form of a much-talked-about deferred prosecution agreement.

A closer look at SNC-Lavalin's sometimes murky past
If a DPA is granted, there won't be a trial and Canadians may never hear how far up the corporate ladder the alleged corruption went inside the global engineering firm.


And with the current parliamentary hearings so narrowly focused on the "he said, she said" of the Prime Minister's Office and the former attorney general, Canadians are at risk of never learning the full extent to which SNC-Lavalin may have influenced the government.

1. How widespread was the bribery?

The criminal case looming over SNC-Lavalin is specifically about Libya.

The company is accused of paying $48 million in bribes to Libyan officials, with executives alleged to have bankrolled yachts and prostitutes for the son of former dictator Moammar Gadhafi in a bid to win lucrative contracts in the country.

If SNC-Lavalin is granted a remediation agreement, the company would face a massive fine — but the public will never get to see the evidence that the RCMP and prosecutors have spent seven years amassing in anticipation of the criminal trial.

What we don't know — and may never know — is the extent of corruption beyond Libya.


SNC-Lavalin is alleged to have paid millions for travel, hotels and escorts on trips to Toronto and Montreal for Saadi Gadhafi, the son of Libya's former dictator, shown here in a 2005 file photo. (Tim Wimborne/Reuters)
A CBC News and Globe and Mail investigation in 2013 revealed SNC-Lavalin used secret codes in budgets to hide unofficial payments on projects around the globe, which numerous employees allege were for bribes. The investigation exposed the payments in 13 countries, including Nigeria, Zambia, Uganda, Ghana, India and Kazakhstan.

CBC EXPLAINSWhat you need to know about the SNC-Lavalin affair
ANALYSISLiberals have taken a polling hit over SNC Lavalin - but Trudeau's taken a bigger one
But Canada has yet to convict anyone from SNC-Lavalin for any foreign bribery — something that is illegal under Canadian law, which aims to stop Canadian companies from propping up corrupt officials and dictators in some of the world's most underdeveloped, oppressive regimes.

A trial in the Libya case could be the last chance for accountability through a public and opening hearing.

2. What did SNC's senior management know?

SNC-Lavalin's former top construction executive, Riadh Ben Aïssa, has already pleaded guilty to bribing Libyan officials and laundering tens of millions of dollars in kickbacks through Swiss bank accounts to win billions in contracts.

But that was in Switzerland, where he was jailed for two-and-a-half years.

What we don't know is who else was involved.


Former SNC executive vice-president Riadh Ben Aïssa, right, pleaded guilty in Switzerland in 2014 to paying bribes to Saadi Gadhafi, left, in order to land lucrative contracts. The company has said he was a rogue employee. (Radio-Canada)
Ben Aïssa has since become a key witness for the prosecution in the upcoming Canadian trial. He's ready to point fingers at others in the company who, for years, groomed and promoted him. He can testify about who in the senior ranks knew about the alleged bribery, and SNC-Lavalin's frequent use of shell companies and Swiss bank accounts to pay "agents" to win global projects.

SNC has long argued that Ben Aïssa was a rogue actor. It denies the charges it is currently facing in Canada.

"All the sources of our troubles [are] coming from him," Jacques Lamarre, SNC-Lavalin's CEO from 1996 until 2009, told CBC News in 2014.

Granting SNC-Lavalin a DPA would shut down Ben Aïssa's testimony.

3. What happened in the Gadhafi smuggling plot?

One of the more bizarre twists in the SNC-Lavalin saga involves two Canadians tied to a plot to smuggle Saadi Gadhafi — the son of the late Libyan dictator and a longtime SNC-Lavalin patron — into Mexico.

In 2011, as civil war toppled the Libyan regime, SNC-Lavalin scrambled to save its projects in the country, as well as its profitable patronage with the Gadhafi family.

Canadian consultant Cynthia Vanier and SNC-Lavalin vice-president Stéphane Roy were detained by police in Mexico City, the pair among a group accused of a conspiracy to forge passports and fly Saadi Gadhafi and his family to a life in hiding.


Canadian consultant Cynthia Vanier spent 18 months in a Mexican prison, accused in a plot to smuggle Saadi Gadhafi and his family out of Libya. But she was released after a court ruled her legal rights had been violated. (Submitted by Betty MacDonald)
But Canadians have never heard the full story.

Vanier, accused of being the mastermind of the plot, was imprisoned in Mexico for 18 months. But she was released after a court ruled her legal rights had been violated.

SNC-Lavalin loses bid for judicial review of prosecution decision
Back in Canada, the RCMP charged Roy in 2014 in relation to the caper and SNC's Libya dealings. But his entire case was thrown out last month due to delays.

SNC-Lavalin has argued Roy and Vanier were rogue actors, and have launched lawsuits against them.

The Gadhafi smuggling plot will no doubt be evidence at the company's upcoming trial.

4. Have lobbyists swayed the Trudeau government?

SNC-Lavalin CEO Neil Bruce, named to that post in 2015, vehemently denies the allegations against the company.

"We've done nothing wrong as a company and none of our current employees have done anything wrong," Bruce told investors last month.

"We've never asked that the charges be dropped, we've never asked for anything to be circumvented outside this judicial system."

Yet Bruce and others from SNC-Lavalin have been vigorously lobbying the Trudeau government for a way out.


SNC-Lavalin CEO Neil Bruce addresses shareholders during the company's annual general meeting in Montreal on May 3, 2018. In an interview with Bloomberg late last year, Bruce said the pending litigation against SNC has cost his company some $5 billion from lost contracts. (Graham Hughes/Canadian Press)
The company has lobbied federal officials on 60 different occasions, pressing the government, among other things, for deferred prosecution and to relax the penalties for corporations convicted of foreign bribery.

What we don't know is what was said or what influence SNC-Lavalin's ear-bending may have had on the prime minister, the PMO, or officials within the justice system.

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The House of Commons justice committee is currently narrowly focused on the allegations that the PMO attempted to politically interfere in the prosecution of SNC-Lavalin by pressuring Jody Wilson-Raybould to offer a DPA. And the federal ethics commissioner is also probing the issue.

But there is no formal probe into how this criminally charged corporation has potentially influenced the government through its extensive lobbying.

5. What about SNC's illegal political donations?

Amid the latest political drama, few are talking about SNC-Lavalin's long history of illegal political donations.

SNC-Lavalin was caught making illegal donations to federal parties back in 2013, when executives were instructed to donate to certain candidates, only to be reimbursed through company bonuses.

Elections Canada investigated, charging a lone SNC-Lavalin bagman, who pleaded guilty in November to illegally funnelling $117,000 to the Liberal and Conservative parties.

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But we don't know who else was involved, or the kind of influence SNC-Lavalin expected or may have received in exchange for their illegal donations.

Elections Canada gave the company a pass, agreeing to a compliance agreement in 2016 that closed the case. That lone executive paid a $2,000 fine.

Under the compliance agreement, Elections Canada agreed to not pursue other "certain former senior executives" and didn't prosecute anyone within the political parties, allowing them to simply pay back the money.
 

nottyboi

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Are you stupid???

Criminal fraud & corruption charge in Quebec beside outside Canada( Libya bribe scandals ) and also election acts fraud charge in Canada all this event occurs in Canada:
1) Criminal frauds & corruption charges Montreal Jacque Cartier Bridge ( https://www.thestar.com/news/canada...ontreal-bridge-contract-documents-reveal.html )

2) Criminal frauds & corruption charge in Montreal McGill SuperHospital ( https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/snc-lavalin-ceo-guilty-fraud-************-duhaime-1.5001839 )

3) Election frauds acts to Liberal Party & to Conservative Party
( https://globalnews.ca/news/4215730/...with-illegal-federal-political-contributions/ )

The Montreal-based company agreed in 2016 to a compliance agreement, which detailed almost $118,000 in donations to the Liberal and Conservative parties through company employees or their spouses who were then reimbursed by SNC-Lavalin. The improperly donated sums included: $83,534.51 to the Liberal Party of Canada; $13,552.13 to various Liberal riding associations; $12,529.12 to four contestants in the 2006 Liberal leadership race, including $5,000 each to Michael Ignatieff and Bob Rae; $3,137.73 to the Conservative Party of Canada; and $5,050 to various Conservative riding associations.

They quietly pleaded guilty
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/election-financing-snclavalin-charbonneau-1.4984823

4) Libya bribes occurs in Canada & outside Canada
https://business.financialpost.com/...raud-and-corruption-linked-to-libyan-projects

The company is already facing a 10 year-ban on bidding on development contracts funded by the World Bank related to allegations of corruption in North Africa, some of the same allegations that could lead to federal charges.

SNC-Lavalin is accused of bribing Libyan officials with some $48 million between 2001 and 2011 and defrauding organizations in that country of $130 million.

Among the more sensational claims is that they paid for lavish trips and more for relatives of former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi and even had some on payroll to ensure they got lucrative contracts.

Former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi arrives at Ciampino airport in Rome on August 29, 2010. (Photo by Ernesto Ruscio/Getty Images)
While some supporters of the firm have dismissed bribes such as this as just part of doing business in the third world, SNC-Lavalin isn’t immune to bribery allegations here at home.

In Canada though, the company has not been charged, until recently. Mostly it has been executives of the firm facing jail time which has allowed the company to claim that the bad executives are no longer with them and the company is changing its ways.


Therefore as in baseball 3 strike you out!

5) Not criminal yet! But don't pass the smell test"
Money began to rain on Trudeau Foundation once Justin took over Liberals, analysis shows
nationalpost.com
https://www.google.ca/search?ei=o92.........0i71j0j0i22i30j33i160j33i21.zFvXB_rbAB8

Former SNC-Lavalin CEO Listed As Past Donor To Trudeau Foundation
https://www.spencerfernando.com/201...o-listed-as-past-donor-to-trudeau-foundation/

PS NO DPA for SNC Lavelin!!

PPS Are you stupid??? Blinded for your love for Trudeau and willing to overlook liberal ( PMO) corruption??
Nothing to do with the matter at hand, everyone knows the history
 

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Stop putting words in my mouth! You are a liar & fraud..just like Trudeau! Time to hold an royal commission and inquiry ! Time to arrest Trudeau!

Also no where in my any of my posting do I believe Trudeau version and I don't favour any DPA for SNC lavlin .
Hey, you are the one posting how SNC shouldn't have gotten a DPA, sounds like it all worked out.
Trudeau had the AG seriously think about it but she decided against it.

Just as you want, right?
 

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Hey, you are the one posting how SNC shouldn't have gotten a DPA, sounds like it all worked out.
Trudeau had the AG seriously think about it but she decided against it.

Just as you want, right?
I making it simple for you arrest Trudeau for obstruction of justice!
Trudeau is a liar!
JWR is the only one telling the Truth. And PMO is a liar!
Trudeau lost the moral authority to govern Canada. Time to lock Trudeau up!
SNC Lavalin don't deserve DPA At all because it not the first criminal offence .
It 3 strike and you like in baseball..whereas SNC Lavalin already had 4 strike!


End of Story!
 

nottyboi

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I making it simple for you arrest Trudeau for obstruction of justice!
Trudeau is a liar!
JWR is the only one telling the Truth. And PMO is a liar!
Trudeau lost the moral authority to govern Canada. Time to lock Trudeau up!
SNC Lavalin don't deserve DPA At all because it not the first criminal offence .
It 3 strike and you like in baseball..whereas SNC Lavalin already had 4 strike!


End of Story!
You really cannot arrest Trudeau for obstruction of justice, because as we can see, so far JWRs decision has prevailed. Even she said nothing illegal happend. The AG and Justice minister have the responsibility of advising the PM about legal procedures, limits etc, she really sucked at that. SUCKED!!!
 
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