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RSS FeedsEtobicoke Councillors Grimes and Di Ciano charged with Elections Act offences over 2014 campaign expenses
(The Star Religion)

 
 

16 november 2018 23:40:43

 
Etobicoke Councillors Grimes and Di Ciano charged with Elections Act offences over 2014 campaign expenses
(The Star Religion)
 


Etobicoke Councillors Mark Grimes and Justin Di Ciano have been charged by police with filing false campaign expenses following the 2014 election.The charges for both were announced at the same time in a press release from the Ontario Provincial Police Friday morning. The pair has been under investigation by the OPP’s anti-rackets branch, which is in charge of probing complex fraud cases, after it received a request from the Toronto police in September 2017 to look into a referral from the city’s independent integrity commissioner.Both allegedly did not disclose approximately $26,000 each in campaign expenses related to the 2014 election, an OPP spokesperson confirmed. The charges, under the Municipal Elections Act, are not criminal charges.The charges, the OPP spokesperson said, are directly related to an allegation first reported by the CBC, that the two councillors had benefited from campaign polling and research totalling more than $40,000 that was paid for by a developer, Dunpar Homes, and not accounted for in their expenses.Di Ciano at the time denied having polling paid for by Dunpar, CBC reported. Grimes called the allegations “unfounded.”A prepared statement released Friday by Grimes’ lawyer, who is not identified, reads: “Councillor Grimes has done nothing wrong. An allegation has been made that he should have made additional financial disclosure for his campaign from four years ago. No such disclosure was required. There is no credible evidence to support the allegation, which was made for political purposes.” A statement from lawyer Scott Fenton says Di Ciano “looks forward to setting the record straight on any alleged clerical errors in his 2014 campaign expense return.” It goes on to say: “The real offence here is the extraordinary waste of scarce government resources spent chasing down minor alleged oversights regarding a long-forgotten municipal election campaign.”Both Grimes and D ...


 
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