Original sentence: Allegations of misuse of funds and RCMP investigations, called for by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, began in 1999, but little was known of what had occurred and the public showed little interest in the affair.Her report was a fuller account of the situation and was made public in early February 2004.Misuse of funds had been known for a few years which led Prime Minister Jean Chrétien to ask the Auditor General Sheila Fraser to audit the program.The fall-out from the scandal now landed squarely in Martin's lap, though Jean Chrétien had offered to stay on until the Auditor General's report was made public in order to prevent this
Edited sentence: Allegations of misuse of funds and RCMP investigations began in 1999, but little was known of what had occurred and the public showed little interest in the affair.The fall-out from the scandal now landed squarely in Martin's lap.While information on the misuse of funds had been known for a few years, a fuller account of the situation was made public in early February 2004 by Auditor General Sheila Fraser