This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_920868000_boundary In a message dated 3/7/99 2:18:49 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Subj: Liberals told police about casino corruption Date: 3/7/99 2:18:49 PM Pacific Standard Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Ward) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jim,This is interesting to note!!!! The following article is from The Vancouver Sun newspaper in Vancouver BC, one of Canada's most respected dailies. Its website is at http://www.vancouversun.com. Liberals told police about casino corruption The Vancouver Sun Harold Munro, Ian Mulgrew, Dianne Rinehart, and Jim Beatty The controversial RCMP raid on Premier Glen Clark's home was precipitated in part by allegations originally given to police by the B.C. Liberal party, The Vancouver Sun has learned. Opposition leader Gordon Campbell acknowledged late Friday that an unidentified man told the Liberals last fall the New Democratic Party government's casino-application process was corrupt. "There were a bunch of allegations made and those allegations were submitted to the commercial crimes section of the RCMP," Campbell said in an interview. "It was two or three pages of information." But Campbell said he never read a memorandum the informant wrote, a version of which has been obtained by The Sun. The Liberal leader, who has called on Clark to step aside during the investigation, said he was interviewed by RCMP investigators in early January, just days before a special prosecutor was appointed. RCMP commercial crimes investigators visited Clark's east Vancouver home Tuesday night, searching for evidence related to a casino licence application made by Dimitrios Pilarinos, his friend and neighbour. Pilarinos was arrested the same day in a raid on the Lumbermen's Club, a poker parlour in the North Burnaby Inn, and charged with keeping an illegal gaming house. Mike Farnworth, the minister responsible for gaming, continued to insist Friday he was solely responsible for the decision -- announced Dec. 17 -- to give approval in principle to the licence application by Pilarinos and his partner Steve Ng, owner of the North Burnaby Inn. "My house has not been raided by the RCMP, nor has my office," he added, his voice cracking with emotion. With two top-flight criminal lawyers already hired at public expense to manage damage control, Clark also asked Friday that B.C. conflict of interest commissioner H.A.D. (Bert) Oliver begin an immediate investigation. Although Clark is not being accused of a crime, he is under scrutiny because Pilarinos did $11,000-worth of renovation work on the premier's home last summer. "I want this matter dealt with as expeditiously as possible in order to confirm that I was not involved in the decision to give approval in principle to the casino licence for the North Burnaby Inn," Clark said in a written statement. In his discussions with the Liberals and in the memo obtained by The Sun, the anonymous informant said Clark may have been unaware of the some of the interests involved in the deal. Campbell said the bombshell information was delivered anonymously to a Liberal party worker in late August or early September. "I was told by the staff person that they were contacting the RCMP," he explained. "I said good. There's no way that we are going to get involved in that sort of stuff." The Opposition leader said he did not know if the material from the Liberals was what actually triggered the RCMP investigation. "It may well have been, but I don't know that," Campbell said. Since the scandal broke, the normally combative Clark has been uncharacteristically tight-lipped. Reporters confronted him as he entered West Vancouver Presbyterian Church for the funeral of Jack Webster and asked him how he thought the late legendary broadcaster would have responded to the controversy. "I think he'd say what many of us are thinking, which is, 'Wow, what another wild week in B.C. politics,'" the premier said. "I think he might also be critical of the way in which the story has unfolded." When Clark was asked what he meant, his media aide Jean Wolff cut off questions. "Look in the mirror you guys," Clark quipped as he was led away. Farnworth said he was aware that one of the partners in the application was a friend of Clark's but said the premier was not involved in the decision- making process. Burnaby city council had rejected the North Burnaby Inn proposal, and a source has told The Sun provincial bureaucrats also thought it should not be approved. But Farnworth insisted he okayed it because it had received a higher evaluation than the only other Burnaby application. "My decision to select one over the other reflected the results of the evaluation committee that reviewed all of the applications," Farnworth said. In Victoria, Oliver said he expects his conflict inquiry to be completed quickly, but he cautioned, "I won't know until I've seen the papers. I've seen nothing yet." The RCMP have also muzzled themselves and refuse to even entertain questions from reporters about their investigation. When asked about the blistering attack on the force's integrity launched by the premier's lawyer, David Gibbons, Corporal Frank Henley shrugged: "We have thick skin." Gibbons accused the force and the media of stooping to the smear tactics favoured by U.S. Senator Joe McCarthy by insinuating there had been wrongdoing by the premier. "Our members were there with a properly endorsed search warrant," Henley said. "They were allowed by law to do exactly what they did and that's the end of it. Period." Meanwhile, the NDP caucus has called an emergency meeting for Monday at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Vancouver, although it normally meets once a month in Victoria. The last meeting was seven days ago. Under the Members' Conflict of Interest Act, it is an offence to further private interests while performing public duties. It is also an offence if a politician has a perceived conflict, in which a reasonably informed person could believe that an MLA has mixed personal and public interests. Penalties for members range from a simple reprimand to the loss of their seat. RULES OF THE GAME: Request for Proposals - Destination and Charitable Gaming Facilities in the Province of British Columbia Section 8: THE SELECTION PROCESS AND EVALUATION CRITERIA Subsection 8.3: Evaluation Criteria - Charitable Gaming Facilities Proposals for both Charitable Casino and Bingo Facilities will be evaluated using the following criteria, which are not necessarily listed in order of importance or priority: - relevant corporate development experience/expertise (includes expertise and experience of the Proponent, and the track record of the Proponent's other properties/projects); - relevant corporate gaming-related experience/expertise (includes expertise and experience of the Proponent, and the track record of the Proponent's other gaming-related properties/projects); - relevant executive development experience/expertise (includes expertise and experience of individuals assigned by the Proponent to the Project); - relevant executive gaming-related experience/expertise (includes expertise and experience of individuals assigned by the Proponent to the Project); - strategic and operational business plans (includes plans for development of the Project, operating, marketing and human resource management plans); - financial strength and capacity (includes financial arrangements for the Project, financial strength of the Proponent, and financial projections for the Project); - Criminal Code compliance (includes plans for involving charity volunteers in a manner set by the requirements for the Regulatory Authority); - knowledge of relevant British Columbia markets (includes relevant experience of the Proponent and key executives assigned by the Proponent to the Project); and - market assessment and the potential negative impact on any existing gaming facility within the same market. The proposals must contain complete responses to the requirements set out in Section 9 of this RFP. Failure to comply with or respond to any part of the RFP may result in rejection of the proposal. Subsection 8.5: Other Evaluation Issues Depending on the number and quality of proposals received, the Evaluation Committee and/or LAC may recommend a short-list of Proponents. Qualified and/or short-listed Proponents may be required to meet with members of the Evaluation Committee, LAC and/or Cabinet to do the following: - elaborate and expand on their proposals and answer questions; - respond to any issues that may arise from their proposals; - submit supplementary material as required; and - any other steps that the Evaluation Committee, LAC and/or Cabinet considers appropriate. (As published by British Columbia Ministry of Employment and Investment Lotteries Advisory Committee) The article you just read is from The Vancouver Sun newspaper in Vancouver BC. Looking for a job in Vancouver? 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Follow the team at http://www.thecanucks.com. ----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from rly-za04.mx.aol.com (rly-za04.mail.aol.com [172.31.36.100]) Received: from crawl.galaxy.southam.com ([204.187.152.36]) by rly-za04.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) Sun, 7 Mar 1999 17:18:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from galaxy.southam.com - 192.168.253.8 by crawl.galaxy.southam.com Received: by galaxy.southam.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Robert Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Liberals told police about casino corruption >> --part0_920868000_boundary Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> by rly-za04.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) Sun, 7 Mar 1999 17:18:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 17:19:27 -0500 From: Robert Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Liberals told police about casino corruption Jim,This is interesting to note!!!! The following article is from The Vancouver Sun newspaper in Vancouver BC, one of Canada's most respected dailies. Its website is at http://www.vancouversun.com. Liberals told police about casino corruption The Vancouver Sun Harold Munro, Ian Mulgrew, Dianne Rinehart, and Jim Beatty The controversial RCMP raid on Premier Glen Clark's home was precipitated in part by allegations originally given to police by the B.C. Liberal party, The Vancouver Sun has learned. Opposition leader Gordon Campbell acknowledged late Friday that an unidentified man told the Liberals last fall the New Democratic Party government's casino-application process was corrupt. "There were a bunch of allegations made and those allegations were submitted to the commercial crimes section of the RCMP," Campbell said in an interview. "It was two or three pages of information." But Campbell said he never read a memorandum the informant wrote, a version of which has been obtained by The Sun. The Liberal leader, who has called on Clark to step aside during the investigation, said he was interviewed by RCMP investigators in early January, just days before a special prosecutor was appointed. RCMP commercial crimes investigators visited Clark's east Vancouver home Tuesday night, searching for evidence related to a casino licence application made by Dimitrios Pilarinos, his friend and neighbour. Pilarinos was arrested the same day in a raid on the Lumbermen's Club, a poker parlour in the North Burnaby Inn, and charged with keeping an illegal gaming house. Mike Farnworth, the minister responsible for gaming, continued to insist Friday he was solely responsible for the decision -- announced Dec. 17 -- to give approval in principle to the licence application by Pilarinos and his partner Steve Ng, owner of the North Burnaby Inn. "My house has not been raided by the RCMP, nor has my office," he added, his voice cracking with emotion. With two top-flight criminal lawyers already hired at public expense to manage damage control, Clark also asked Friday that B.C. conflict of interest commissioner H.A.D. (Bert) Oliver begin an immediate investigation. Although Clark is not being accused of a crime, he is under scrutiny because Pilarinos did $11,000-worth of renovation work on the premier's home last summer. "I want this matter dealt with as expeditiously as possible in order to confirm that I was not involved in the decision to give approval in principle to the casino licence for the North Burnaby Inn," Clark said in a written statement. In his discussions with the Liberals and in the memo obtained by The Sun, the anonymous informant said Clark may have been unaware of the some of the interests involved in the deal. Campbell said the bombshell information was delivered anonymously to a Liberal party worker in late August or early September. "I was told by the staff person that they were contacting the RCMP," he explained. "I said good. There's no way that we are going to get involved in that sort of stuff." The Opposition leader said he did not know if the material from the Liberals was what actually triggered the RCMP investigation. "It may well have been, but I don't know that," Campbell said. Since the scandal broke, the normally combative Clark has been uncharacteristically tight-lipped. Reporters confronted him as he entered West Vancouver Presbyterian Church for the funeral of Jack Webster and asked him how he thought the late legendary broadcaster would have responded to the controversy. "I think he'd say what many of us are thinking, which is, 'Wow, what another wild week in B.C. politics,'" the premier said. "I think he might also be critical of the way in which the story has unfolded." When Clark was asked what he meant, his media aide Jean Wolff cut off questions. "Look in the mirror you guys," Clark quipped as he was led away. Farnworth said he was aware that one of the partners in the application was a friend of Clark's but said the premier was not involved in the decision-making process. Burnaby city council had rejected the North Burnaby Inn proposal, and a source has told The Sun provincial bureaucrats also thought it should not be approved. But Farnworth insisted he okayed it because it had received a higher evaluation than the only other Burnaby application. "My decision to select one over the other reflected the results of the evaluation committee that reviewed all of the applications," Farnworth said. In Victoria, Oliver said he expects his conflict inquiry to be completed quickly, but he cautioned, "I won't know until I've seen the papers. I've seen nothing yet." The RCMP have also muzzled themselves and refuse to even entertain questions from reporters about their investigation. When asked about the blistering attack on the force's integrity launched by the premier's lawyer, David Gibbons, Corporal Frank Henley shrugged: "We have thick skin." Gibbons accused the force and the media of stooping to the smear tactics favoured by U.S. Senator Joe McCarthy by insinuating there had been wrongdoing by the premier. "Our members were there with a properly endorsed search warrant," Henley said. "They were allowed by law to do exactly what they did and that's the end of it. Period." Meanwhile, the NDP caucus has called an emergency meeting for Monday at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Vancouver, although it normally meets once a month in Victoria. The last meeting was seven days ago. Under the Members' Conflict of Interest Act, it is an offence to further private interests while performing public duties. It is also an offence if a politician has a perceived conflict, in which a reasonably informed person could believe that an MLA has mixed personal and public interests. Penalties for members range from a simple reprimand to the loss of their seat. RULES OF THE GAME: Request for Proposals - Destination and Charitable Gaming Facilities in the Province of British Columbia Section 8: THE SELECTION PROCESS AND EVALUATION CRITERIA Subsection 8.3: Evaluation Criteria - Charitable Gaming Facilities Proposals for both Charitable Casino and Bingo Facilities will be evaluated using the following criteria, which are not necessarily listed in order of importance or priority: - relevant corporate development experience/expertise (includes expertise and experience of the Proponent, and the track record of the Proponent's other properties/projects); - relevant corporate gaming-related experience/expertise (includes expertise and experience of the Proponent, and the track record of the Proponent's other gaming-related properties/projects); - relevant executive development experience/expertise (includes expertise and experience of individuals assigned by the Proponent to the Project); - relevant executive gaming-related experience/expertise (includes expertise and experience of individuals assigned by the Proponent to the Project); - strategic and operational business plans (includes plans for development of the Project, operating, marketing and human resource management plans); - financial strength and capacity (includes financial arrangements for the Project, financial strength of the Proponent, and financial projections for the Project); - Criminal Code compliance (includes plans for involving charity volunteers in a manner set by the requirements for the Regulatory Authority); - knowledge of relevant British Columbia markets (includes relevant experience of the Proponent and key executives assigned by the Proponent to the Project); and - market assessment and the potential negative impact on any existing gaming facility within the same market. The proposals must contain complete responses to the requirements set out in Section 9 of this RFP. Failure to comply with or respond to any part of the RFP may result in rejection of the proposal. Subsection 8.5: Other Evaluation Issues Depending on the number and quality of proposals received, the Evaluation Committee and/or LAC may recommend a short-list of Proponents. Qualified and/or short-listed Proponents may be required to meet with members of the Evaluation Committee, LAC and/or Cabinet to do the following: - elaborate and expand on their proposals and answer questions; - respond to any issues that may arise from their proposals; - submit supplementary material as required; and - any other steps that the Evaluation Committee, LAC and/or Cabinet considers appropriate. (As published by British Columbia Ministry of Employment and Investment Lotteries Advisory Committee) The article you just read is from The Vancouver Sun newspaper in Vancouver BC. Looking for a job in Vancouver? Try our Careerclick site at http://www.careerclick.com/bc. Canucks fan? Follow the team at http://www.thecanucks.com. --part0_920868000_boundary--
