On The Latest The Dobranos.....

.....Lets Make No Deal

(please see Update at bottom of Post)

WhenNoIsYes
EveryWhichWayButStraightVille

Yesterday, we broke into our daily silence period (ie. workday) to comment on Neal Hall's report in the Sun in which he concluded that the Crown's major witness, the alleged bribemaster in the BC RailGate Fiasco, was no longer being offered immunity.

Now Bill Tieleman is reporting that the Special Prosecutor* is saying that there never was a deal, sort of:

Justice Elizabeth Bennett got the surprise answer from Special Prosecutor Janet Winteringham, who has handled most Crown duties during Berardino’s unexplained absence from the proceedings.

“The only question I had – was there an immunity agreement as outlined in Crown policy and the answer is there was not. But there’s no written agreement signed by Mr. Bornmann?” Bennett asked.

“No, there’s not, “Winteringham replied.


Now, why are we suggesting that this apparently straight answer to a very direct question that did not involve choosing between Door #1, #2 or #3 actually indicates that there may have only 'sort of' been no deal?

Because if you parse the language, which seems to be increasingly necessary in this case, and indeed in the case of everything that the Dobranos are involved in, you will notice that there is a little qualifier there in the question from the Judge that could be implied in the answer from the Special Prosecutor.

And that is the word 'written'.

The action in the Studio 54 courtroom is now adjourned until Tuesday.

Stay tuned for more on following the money trail......

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*Of course, the 'senior' Special Prosecutor, Bill Berardino, was not in Court to answer the Judge. Instead, he was nowhere to be found and his 'juniors' were left to twist in the wind.
Will be interesting to see if the folks on the GoodShip Watercarrier still think that none of this is such a big deal on this morning's edition of the Ledgie Boys (notsoGiant98 @ ~ 9:00am).

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Update......

It looks like we may have used the wrong Canadian Game Show host's image at the top of the post, because today Neal Hall reports that:

Earlier this week, ('junior' prosecutor Janet)Winteringham told the judge that the (currently absent 'senior) special prosecutor, Bill Berardino, could make a statement in court as to why the deal with Bornmann was cancelled in 2004.

The prosecutor has said there was no signed deal with Bornmann, so there was no document disclosed to the defence, so the terms of deal haven't been disclosed.

So, does that mean that the terms of the 'Deal/No Deal' are actually hidden away in a suitcase somewhere?

And is Howie Mandel holding said piece of luggage?

Sheesh.

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