Corruption Inc.

Four months ago we reported that an RCMP electronic surveillance had shown that Yvon Talbot had accepted a bribe from one Montreal businessman and was seeking another bribe from a second businessman.

We are not surprised however, that no action has been taken by the CRA against that employee, in fact no employee has ever been reprimanded for any case of corruption that we have reported on since the inception of this blog.

What we didn’t tell you when we first reported the incident was the amount of the bribe that Mr. Talbot was seeking. Mr. Talbot was hinting at “fixing” the audit file for roughly $2,000,000.

What this tells us is that Mr. Talbot was not asking for such a large sum of money only for himself (otherwise Mr. Talbot would have retired a long time ago). No, this money would have to be shared up the chain of command with the managers who would protect him, in case negotiations went sour (as they apparently did).

In light of this, we wondered who would have benefited had the bribe been paid; and came up with an organizational chart, as seen at the top of the page. Alternatively we prepared a diagram (to the left of the text) for those not “into” organizational charts; it shows you (the Canadian taxpayer) at the top “getting it” from everyone.

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone.

2015 should be another interesting year re. CRA corruption reporting, with the first case going to trial re. Projet Coche (the corruption of federal auditors); Francesco Fazio, June 8 to 15, 2015. Stay tuned.