Peter Wallace, Cabinet Secretary
Thom Stenson, Manager of the Information Technology Services for the cabinet office
David Nicholl, Chief Information Officer at Government of Ontario
David Livingston, Chief of Staff to Premier McGuinty
Wendy Wai, Executive Assistant to Mr. Livingston
Laura Miller, Deputy Chief of Staff of Communications and Strategy and the Chief of Staff to the Minister of Intergovernmental affairs.
Peter Faist, boyfriend and life partner of Ms Miller.
The first two, Wallace and Stenson, are top civil servants in the Cabinet Office. They were uncomfortable with urgent inquiries on the part of David Livingstone, the Premier’s top aide, to obtain permission for someone to have password authority on every machine in the office. Wallace and Stenson had never heard of such a thing but it appears that Mr. Livingstone got his way. The OPP say in their warrant that David Nicholl provided the password even though he reports to Mr. Wallace, who disagreed. Mr. Livingstone then gave this authority to his Executive Assistant, Wendy Wai, a woman who the OPP concluded knew very little about computers and who realistically, could never have erased the hard drives. She was, they decided, a kind of “trojan horse” or cover for the real expert. That person was found close by, police allege, but was not authorized to touch the computers. It was determined that Laura Miller (fifth on the list) had a boyfriend who was very capable in this area. His name was Peter Faist. Mr. Livingstone gave the job to him, the cops say
