It just keeps getting more bizarre. Jacques Corriveau (by now you know he has close ties to former-PM Chretien) created bogus invoices referencing the Olympic Stadiums in Trois-Rivieres and Chicoutimi (did we do better at those games and actually win a gold medal?).
...Documents filed at the inquiry showed that graphics designer Jacques Corriveau claimed tens of thousands of dollars in professional fees to "re-arrange" exhibit spaces in the Olympic Stadium – for events that actually took place in small towns in the hinterland, such as Trois-Rivières or Chicoutimi.
The event organizer, businessman Luc Lemay, said he never checked the invoices because he had a deal to give Mr. Corriveau a 17.5-per-cent cut of the sponsorship contracts that Mr. Corriveau's lobbying clinched for him.
"I never scanned them, I'd set them aside," Mr. Lemay said.
Mr. Lemay said it is only now that he learned that lobbyists are supposed to be federally registered.
"You never heard that influence-peddling is an outlawed practice?" Judge Gomery asked.
