Accusation and innuendo are just everywhere for Senator Mike and Mayor Rob. First the senator’s latest problems because they are newer and maybe a little easier to take in. The CBC says that RCMP Cpl. Greg Horton believes Duffy “hired a friend as a consultant over an approximate four year period, and paid him a total of approximately $65,000 during that time, for little or no apparent work.” Horton said in the affidavit that the friend, Gerald Donohue, was interviewed by investigators “and acknowledged that he produced no tangible work product for Duffy.” Donohue, a former technician who worked for CTV and CBC, told investigators that he did Internet research and provided verbal advice to Duffy, Horton wrote. We’ll have to wait to see where this one goes. As to Mayor Ford, the Toronto Star (of course) says that Mr.Ford’s friend Sandro Lisi attempted last March to swap drugs for a stolen cellular phone believed to belong to Mayor Rob Ford. That investigation, the Star reports, brought about the multiple arrests of June 13. You will have to draw your own conclusions about what this might mean for the future of the mayor, if anything. Can a phone be a smoking gun? And how do you smoke a phone? Trouble, trouble.
