RailGate Repo Men...Names My Archives Tell Me

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So.

Not everything Auditor General John Doyle will be using to put together his report on the Six Million Dollar RailGate Payoff need come from super secret solicitor-client-privileged sources.

For example, while Vaughn Palmer dared not say their names, the monikers of the Deputy Ministerial Duo who pulled the trigger on the Cabinet Fingerprint-Free deal are a matter of the public record.

Here they are, named in a Victoria Times-Colonist piece by Rob Shaw from last fall that no longer exists except in the fringes of the Google-Cache and/or in our archives:

".....(W)hen special prosecutor Bill Berardino made the B.C. government aware on Oct. 5 that he had proposed to let the two men plead guilty, it fell to the deputy minister of finance, Graham Whitmarsh, and (Deputy Attorney General David) Loukidelis to figure out whether they would actually have to come up with the money, Loukidelis's statement read.

"A major consideration was the relatively small amounts that might be recovered from Mr. Basi and Mr. Virk compared to the millions of additional dollars it would cost the government to continue to fund defence, prosecution and court-related costs through to the completion of the trial, and to fund any appeals, with no guarantee of convictions," said Loukidelis.

"Based on the above, in our respective capacities the Deputy Minister of Finance and I decided to release Mr. Basi and Mr. Virk from their liability to repay. I communicated that decision to the Attorney General on October 8, 2010....."

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And, ya, I know I essentially wrote the same post, with a little more focus on the Voldemortianism being practiced by Mr. Palmer on the weekend, but I have learned by fiddling with the hit counter that hardly anybody actually clicks through on cliff-hanger links....Sheesh.

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