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Article content Rich Coleman, the influential, ex-Liberal cabinet minister roasted at the hearings that launched B.C.’s money-laundering inquiry, has had the final say. Commissioner Austin Cullen ended his hearings on Friday, after two years of investigation, by watching Coleman the final witness be grilled to clarify earlier testimony. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Ian Mulgrew: Coleman lambasted for misleading testimony as money-laundering inquiry wraps up Back to video For nearly 90 minutes, Coleman was raked over the coals for previously failing to fully answer questions about his response to comments in 2011 by then RCMP inspector Barry Baxter that it was obvious dirty money was flowing through casinos. ....
Article content Kash Heed should have known the bromance that started nearly 40 years ago would end in tears he was with the Vancouver Police Department, Fred Pinnock the RCMP. Still, who would have predicted such an embarrassing breakup one feeling utterly betrayed, the other considered a disgruntled ex-cop with a chip on his shoulder. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Ian Mulgrew: Betrayal underlines ties in dirty-money debate Back to video The unseemly episode spoke of the complicated relationships and, in some cases, long-standing gripes among police and regulators muddying the dirty-money debate. ....
“The need for revenue was never a driver for anything we did on this file,” he said. Over his close to five-hour testimony, Coleman, an MLA between 1996 and 2017, described his role as a primary architect of expanding gambling under the BC Liberal government commencing in 2001. Coleman was responsible for gambling policies and enforcement on three separate occasions (2001-2005, 2008-2010 and 2012-2013), during which time it is now known large and suspicious transactions reached hundreds of millions of dollars annually despite being illegally underreported by casinos for many of those years. Under oath, Coleman explained perhaps one of his most controversial decisions as the minister responsible for gambling – the disbandment of the Illegal Gaming Enforcement Team (IGET) in 2009. ....
Article content At public meetings launching the Cullen commission into money laundering, some denounced former provincial solicitor-general Rich Coleman as if he were a Great Satan an avatar of all the Liberal failures. After two years of investigation, Coleman on Wednesday left the commission’s online witness window having proven why he was re-elected often and a senior minister for so long. His critics must have been deflated. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Ian Mulgrew: No one blind to dirty money, Coleman insists Back to video Forget about no smoking gun, Coleman sounded confident, forthright and in command of the issues he confronted as a cabinet minister for nearly two decades especially about dirty money. ....
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