Tories order Rahim Jaffer to cease using party logo

[daleo]

Former Tory MP Rahim Jaffer has complied with a demand by the Conservative Party to remove its logo from his personal website.

A senior Harper official confirmed to The Globe this afternoon that the party asked Mr. Jaffer to take it off his personal website. The order came in reaction to an explosive report of the former MP’s business dealings, in which he flaunted his access to the Conservative government.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/tories-order-rahim-jaffer-to-cease-using-party-logo/article1527970/

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Man, talk about tough on crime. I hope they still let him wear a blue tie.

[ZeitgeistObserver]

1. 'And there is more:

Mr. Jaffer was using his wife’s parliamentary email address to conduct some of his private business,'

And I guess she never noticed that eh?

[daleo]

2. Now, GHG is suing the Toronto Star

Which will give Harper et al the cover they need to say "it is before the courts".
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Hot off the currently-nearly-entirely-Jaffer-speculation-dominated presses comes this vaguely foreboding press release from GPG co-founder -- and erstwhile Conservative candidate of record in Ottawa Vanier -- Patrick Glemaud:


April 8, 2010
PRESS RELEASE
From Green Power Generation Corporation (GPG)
Ottawa- Mr Jaffer is a valued partner of GPG. The allegations in the Toronto Star are inaccurate and a complete mischaracterization of the contact between Mr Jaffer a principal of GPG, and M Nazim Gillani, of International Strategic Investments (ISI). In light of the publication, GPG intends to seek legal action against the Toronto Star.

http://www.cbc.ca/politics/insidepolitics/2010/04/from-the-desk-of-gpg-president-patrick-glemaud-toronto-star-allegations-complete-mischaracterization.html

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[ZeitgeistObserver]

3. I doubt that will get very far,

and either way I expect Helena to disappear in the next cabinet shuffle.

[JBoy]

4. He kept using his MP business cards. Should have been using this as his bus. card:

[shockedcanadian]

6. hehe nice

I found that funny...he DID use that card didn't he? :)

[tuvor]

5. And the hits just keep on coming. This time about Raffer's "access" to the PMO...

Jaffer's alleged boast about access 'absurd': PMO

The Prime Minister's Office has dismissed a disgraced former MP's alleged boasts to his business contacts about access to Stephen Harper's inner circle as "false" and "absurd."

The Toronto Star published an article Thursday alleging Rahim Jaffer, husband of junior cabinet minister Helena Guergis, dined and drank with several prospective clients and prostitutes Sept. 10 — the night of his arrest on charges of drunk driving and cocaine possession.

The Star's report claims Jaffer, 38, said he and his business partners would have "no problem" obtaining government funds for projects.

...

The Star quoted an email from one of the prospective clients, Nazim Gillani, to his associates the day after the alleged evening meeting as saying Jaffer "has opened up the prime minister’s office to us."

...

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/04/08/jaffer-pmo-access.html