Elections watchdog probe continues into Conservative riding association cash donation from alleged fugitive drug “banker”
Cash donations were registered under the name of five people
John Crosbie
Death slows Elections Canada probe into $5,000 donation to Conservative riding association in Montreal
An Elections Canada probe into a $5,000 cash donation to a Conservative riding association in Montreal has been slowed by the death of a party fundraiser, according to the office of the NDP’s ethics critic.
Name of fugitive businessman who once travelled in federal Conservative circles emerged during U.S. drug probe
At an airport northeast of Boston, on a Wednesday in October, a private jet waited for the arrival of two Montreal men carrying a pair of suitcases stuffed with $1.7 million US in cash.
The part about the letter (IV)
John Crosbie, the lieutenant-governor of Newfoundland and Labrador, says he wrote the letter to the immigration minister as a favour for a friend who wanted to buy the Quebec-based Laurentian Bank of Canada.
The part about copper and the bank (V)
John Reynolds’ name was on two folders among the hundreds of documents seized by police when they raided Michael Chamas’ house, Federal Court records show.
