Charlatan

So I've been avidly following the hearings into the dealings between Brian Mulroney and Karlheinz Schreiber. Everyone has known for sometime that Mulroney accepted $300,000 in cash from Schreiber, in fact, Mulroney received $2 million from the government in settlement over a potential defamation suit when the story was first cracked years ago.

So now that Schreiber is set to be deported to Germany to face charges of fraud and tax evasion, he is singing a new song. He has actively tied the money to Airbus kickbacks. Mulroney is set to speak today in the hearing. A poll I just read suggests that Canadians find Schreiber more believable than Mulroney.

What do you think?

There seems to be all sorts of layers to this onion. I am fascinated to hear that Schreiber gave money to Mulroney's machine to support the effort to oust Joe Clark. What I mean is, we sort of suspect this kind of thing happens -- foreign interests pumping money into the system to get the kind of leadership they want -- but it's rare to hear about it in an offical setting.

I can't help but think that if this was another nation, Schreiber would have been quietly assassinated years ago.

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