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http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/wrig...ents-1.2433427

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's former chief of staff, Nigel Wright, is being investigated for bribery, fraud and breach of trust along with Senator Mike Duffy, in an RCMP probe that has expanded to include the Prime Minister's Office, court documents released today show.

...suggest numerous senior officials in the Prime Minister's Office were involved in the negotiations. Horton details alleged negotiations between Duffy's then lawyer, Janice Payne, and PMO legal counsel Benjamin Perrin.

Horton alleges Senator Irving Gerstein, who is in charge of the Conservative Party's finances, agreed to pay off what Duffy owed the Senate when he thought it was $32,000, but "agreed to reimbursement of the legal fees" when it was revealed Duffy had to repay more than $90,000.

Horton alleges in the court documents that the payment was part of an agreement that would have seen the government end a Senate audit into Duffy's spending, and confirm that he was eligible to sit as the senator from P.E.I., despite having lived in Ottawa for decades.


When the audit went ahead, "the PMO in turn set out to have the Senate Report changed to reflect how they wanted it to appear," Horton alleges in the affidavit