Mike Duffy's "scapegoated" by P.M. Harper
Channel: landlogger
Date: 2013-10-22

EXPLOSIVE allegations in Senate spending scandal
Mike Duffy's lawyer says the Prime Minister's Office was directly involved in a coverup around former senator's expenses
 Mike Duffy once promised his side of the story on his dealings with the Prime Minister's Office and the $90,000 payment of contested expenses.
On Monday, his lawyer helped break the senator's silence with what he called "the tip of the iceberg" of evidence.
Donald Bayne spent nearly an hour alleging how Prime Minister Stephen Harper's staff and key Conservative senators developed a scheme to have Duffy take the fall for wrong doing that even they agreed he had not committed.
Harper, meanwhile, continued to lay blame for the matter Monday on a single person — his former chief of staff Nigel Wright.
"The whole political decision-making about this has been a fiasco," Bayne told reporters.
"From the get-go, rather than letting the truth out, that there are flaws in the Senate system and rules, it's the old story. The cover-up is always more damaging than the original issue." Donald Bayne, Sen. Mike Duffy's lawyer, said Monday at a news conference that his client was "scapegoated" by the Prime Minister's Office. zoom
Duffy is facing the threat of suspension without pay from the upper chamber for "gross negligence" in the management of resources, along with colleagues Pamela Wallin and Patrick Brazeau. Conservative motions are expected to be introduced Tuesday.