Now the PI is bankrupt

[ZeitgeistObserver]

Peter Mansbridge reports that PI Derek Snowdy is bankrupt to the tune of 13 million dollars. More on the National.

http://twitter.com/RosieBarton/status/12247963017

[ZeitgeistObserver]

1. This just in as they say.

Seems to be true.

http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/04/15/snowdy-guergis.html

[CHIMO]

2. So He

Tried to sell it to the Liberals. Didn't work.

Tried to sell it to to the police. Didn't work.

But Harper bought it and sacked his cabinet minister.

Now where is Brutus?

[daleo]

3. Interesting, but I don't see how it actually affects the story

Did Harper and the Conservatives pay for this info? If the PI was trying to shake them down, surely they would have set the police on him, not fire the minister.

So it's an interesting McGuffin, but I don't know how it affects the Jaffer/Guergis allegations.

[ZeitgeistObserver]

4. I don't know how either.

But it's one more strange twist in this soap opera.

On edit:

I had been going to add we'll probably hear about her dancing on tabletops tomorrow, but then didn't, as that seemed pretty unlikely.

I was wrong. It doesn't mention tabletops but apparently she's quite the party girl.

And I didn't even have to wait until tomorrow!

Guergis had a history in the clubs with hometown playboy: acquaintance

OTTAWA - Helena Guergis may have nurtured the image of a straightlaced cabinet minister on Parliament Hill, but people who knew her in younger days paint a picture of a regular club-goer often seen on the arm of a hometown playboy.

It's similar to the picture being painted of Guergis by recent allegations that she and her husband Rahim Jaffer were photographed in a compromising situation with cocaine and hookers.

The allegations, and others related to offshore accounts, led to her expulsion from the the Conservative caucus as the Mounties were called in to investigate.

http://www.metronews.ca/ottawa/canada/article/504102--guergis-had-a-history-in-the-clubs-with-hometown-playboy-acquaintance