Liberal Millionaires Club

Robert Ghiz, centre of PNP money laundering ?

By Stephen Pate
NJN News

The Provincial Nominee Program PNP is a money laundering scheme worth $400 million. The PNP or Immigrant Scam will put $400 million into the bank accounts of businesses, party faithful and PEI politicians, including we suspect Premier Ghiz himself. Because of the liabilities involved, the final bill will rest with every taxpayer on PEI.

Money laundering is simply a series of transactions that may look legal and innocent when considered separately but the effect is to move money from one party to another without detection. We hear of drug money being laundered through foreign banks and returned to Canada through investments in business and real estate to give it a legitimate appearance. Money laundering attempts to disguise the source of the money.

Paul MacNeill of the Eastern Graphic has detailed some of the legal liabilities that face the Province of PEI from the Provincial Nominee Program or PNP, PPN $400 Liability?. . According to MacNeill, since the Ghiz government proceeded without Federal approval, PEI could be left holding the bag should the Federal Government or the Chinese immigrants sue. That’s $400 million of taxpayers money.

In Nova Scotia the Provincial government, after months of stalling and denial, was forced to refund up to 75% of the PNP investments. For PEI, that could signal a public liability of $300 million or more. That money will not come from the investees, lawyers and consultants: it comes from the government. This allows the government of Nova Scotia to launder $100’s of millions of dollars from the Chinese investors to their patronage friends and leave taxpaying Nova Scotians with the bill. That is money laundering.

Nova Scotia has an even more famous example of money laundering during the 70’s, In 1981 the bag man for the Liberal Party of Premier Gerald Reagan was tried along with 4 other Liberal party officials of influence peddling. They were secretly extracting a toll from the distillers on each bottle of alcohol sold in the province. The Liberal Bourassa government in Quebec was uncovered doing the same thing. NS and Quebec taxpayers paid more for alcohol to fill Liberal bank accounts.

The money, according to the trial and media coverage, went into secret slush fund for Reagan’s discretionary use. The trial never disclosed what the money was used for or the amounts. It’s ironic that when Reagan was charged with sexual assault, the McCain family came to his aid and hired Canada’s most expensive lawyers to defend Regan.

Similarly in the Immigrant Scam, $200 million is unaccounted for, ostensibly left in the hands of the intermediary fronted by Norman Clarey of Charlottetown. The money is held by various LLP’s, or limited partnerships. LLP’s don’t report their financial information or partners publicly. Without a court order or police investigations we don’t even know who the partners in the LLP’s are or where the money is going.

We know virtually nothing which makes then prime vehicles to launder money back into the hands of Premier Ghiz, his blind trusts, and other party faithful. This may seem far fetched but money laundering goes on all the time at this level. We’ve seen it over and over again in Canadian public life.

It cannot occur without the Premier’s knowledge and complicity since this is a tiny place and he is fully aware of the transaction. He is even on record calling people and telling them he’s working on their applications. Talk about a smoking gun.

If the Premier is not involved, call in the RCMP to see who in his office or the Liberal Party hatched the money laundering scheme through the PNP.

In the cases of big time government fraud, the lion’s share of the money floats to the highest political levels with little detection. Secret slush funds, like the one’s used by Richard Nixon and the Republican Party, can be used to finance skulduggery, lavish lifestyles and pensions for high officials. The beneficiary is usually the President, Prime Minister or Premier.

Michael Mayne, Premier Ghiz's office insider

Common sense will tell you Premier Ghiz did not set up a deal that gives Tory Norman Clarey and his associates $200 million. The way these deals work, the Liberal party – it could be Michael Mayne and or Chris LeClair as alluded to by John Jeffery – has made a deal to leave a portion of the money with the LLP’s and the lion’s share will come back secretly to the Liberals.

The Liberals will try to contain the scandal. The RCMP, the Auditor General of Canada and other investigators will uncover some of the money flow but not all of it. A few people will get charged and convicted, a few people will pay fines and go to jail. Premier Ghiz and the ring leaders only need to ride out the storm and retire rich.

Chris LeClair, deputy premier - is he the mastermind behind PNP?

The government of Nova Scotia could not give public funds to its patronage friends but it can give them Chinese investor money and force the public to pick up the tab. PEI taxpayers will be paying for the Immigrant Scam for decades.

If the Premier is not involved call in the RCMP to investigate.