Andrew Coyne: The Real Adscam Mystery

The real Adscam mystery Andrew Coyne, National Post, May 14, 2005

Where did they get the cash? Not the money -- we know where they got that. They got it from us: [. . . . ]

We know why they did this: to escape detection. What's not clear is how. Where does anyone get their hands on $200,000 in cash? You can't just walk into a bank and cash a cheque for 200-grand, in small bills please, unmarked, and be sure to scramble the serial numbers, won't you? Even if you make a lot of little withdrawals, there are bound to be questions asked. There are laws about these things. To scrape together that kind of cash without attracting attention, you have to draw from a large number of separate and unrelated sources, and do so in a way that does not leave a paper trail of its own. Or you have to know the kind of people who can do that for you.

As shady as they seem to be, I somehow doubt that even Liberal party executives possess those kinds of skills. [. . . . ]

Why was Daniel Dezainde so deathly afraid of Joe Morselli? [. . . . ]

"Organized crime mobs are targeting Parliament and other Canadian institutions in an attempt to spread corruption and political instability, says the new head of the RCMP. [Ottawa Citizen of September 8, 2000]