Canadian PM denies interfering in a corruption case after former AG Jody Wilson-Raybould testified there was political interference in the corruption case involving a multinational engineering company
Wilson-Raybould called it"incredibly inappropriate" but said she didn't think it was illegal. She said 11 people tried to interfere in her prosecutorial discretion including Trudeau.
Trudeau says the decision to avoid a prosecution and enter into a remediation agreement with Montreal-based SNC-Lavalin was hers and hers alone.Canada ex-attorney: Government tried to interfere in Wilson-Raybould called it "incredibly inappropriate" but said she didn't think it was illegal because she wasn't instructed to seek a settlement. She said 11 people tried to interfere in her prosecutorial discretion including Trudeau.
Trudeau said the decision on whether to forgo prosecution and enter a plea agreement with the company was hers and hers alone. "For a period of approximately four months, between September and December of 2018, I experienced a consistent and sustained effort by many people within the government to seek to politically interfere in the exercise of prosecutorial discretion in my role as the attorney general of Canada," she told a Parliament justice committee.Gerald Butts, Trudeau's closet adviser, resigned last week but denied that he or anyone else pressured Wilson-Raybould.
If convicted criminally, the company would be banned from receiving any federal government business for a decade. SNC-Lavalin is a major employer in Quebec, with about 3,400 employees in the province, 9,000 employees in Canada and more than 50,000 worldwide.
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