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April 13, 2005

Chicoutimi Olympic Stadium

Never mind that Jacques Corriveau allegedly skimmed $6.7-million off the top for steering sponsorship contracts to Groupe Polygone, almost all of it using phoney invoices. Here's the truly outrageous part:

One bill shows that Mr. Corriveau charged $35,000 to surf government websites and save and laser-print some of the Internet pages.


And here I'm surfing the web for free! Then there's this:

Documents filed at the inquiry showed that graphics designer Jacques Corriveau claimed tens of thousands of dollars in professional fees to "re-arrange" exhibit spaces in the Olympic Stadium – for events that actually took place in small towns in the hinterland, such as Trois-Rivières or Chicoutimi.


The former president of Groupe Polygone, Luc Lemay, told the inquiry "it is only now that he learned that lobbyists are supposed to be federally registered," prompting this response from Judge Gomery: "You never heard that influence-peddling is an outlawed practice?"
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