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	Sponsorship scandal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 2002, Alfonso Gagliano, the minister supervising the department responsible, was removed from cabinet and sent as ambassador to Denmark.
		Alfonso Gagliano responded by launching a $4.5 million lawsuit against Martin and the government of Canada for defamation and wrongful dismissal claiming that Martin exceeded his authority as Prime Minister in firing him.
		May 28 - Alfonso Gagliano launches a lawsuit for $4.5 million against Prime Minister Paul Martin and the federal government for defamation and wrongful dismissal claiming that he has been unfairly made to pay for the sponsorship scandal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Canada_sponsorship_scandal (2513 words)

	CBC News:Ambassador Gagliano fired as critical report released (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		OTTAWA - Prime Minister Paul Martin fired Alfonso Gagliano as Canada's ambassador to Denmark on Tuesday, shortly before the auditor general released a report critical of federal sponsorships in Quebec.
		Alfonso Gagliano appears before a Commons committee in Ottawa on March 19, 2002.
		Gagliano was appointed ambassador to Denmark two years ago, when the controversy began to swirl.
	www.cbc.ca /stories/2004/02/10/auditor040210 (332 words)

	Sun Ottawa Bureau Columnist: Greg Weston - 'Nobody ever informed me ...'
		Yet to hear Gagliano tell the story, his office was somewhere in the wonderful world of Disney, one of the most powerful ministers in Jean Chretien's cabinet left utterly oblivious to the Adscam fiasco raging right under his nose.
		By the time Gagliano became public works minister in early 1997, two separate audits of the advertising branch in the preceding 18 months had already found all manner of contracting hanky-panky.
		Gagliano was apparently so happy with Guite's good works that he promoted him to assistant deputy minister.
	www.canoe.ca /NewsStand/Columnists/Ottawa/Greg_Weston/2004/03/19/pf-387153.html (662 words)

	Federal Liberals Connected to the Mafia? : Thunderbay IMC
		Gagliano, for his part, said he was shocked by the allegations against him.
		Gagliano admitted at the time that he was "probably" kept out of then-prime minister Jean Chrétien's first cabinet in 1993 because of those checks.
		Gagliano acknowledged in 1994 that he had done accounting work for companies owned by Agostino Cuntrera - who was later jailed on conspiracy charges in the slaying of Paolo Violi, a well-known Montreal mob figure.
	thunderbay.indymedia.org /print.php?id=16547 (1368 words)

	LES AFFAIRES
		Gagliano said it was an open competition that was won fair and square by Buffet Trio.
		Gagliano, who was elected to the board in 1977 and became its chairman in 1983.
		Gagliano was persuaded to run in the 1984 federal election, Mr.
	www.vigile.net /ds-affaires/gagliano/02-1-12-globe.html (655 words)

	CTV.ca \| Alfonso Gagliano
		Alfonso Gagliano was first elected to Parliament in 1984 to represent the old eastern Montreal riding of St. Leonard-Anjou.
		Gagliano was also made Jean Chretien's Quebec lieutenant, thus making him the political boss of the province for the federal Liberals -- and putting his hands on the levers that control federal patronage there.
		Gagliano was under frequent attack by opposition MPs in 2000 and 2001 for a series of controversies.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1080783897867_20?hub=Canada (708 words)

	Gagliano, denies Mafia link
		Alfonso Gagliano declared yesterday he is not a member of the Mafia.
		A decade ago, Gagliano found his rise to cabinet delayed after the RCMP told prime minister Jean Chrétien Gagliano’s accounting firm was working for companies owned by Agostino Cuntrera, who spent time in prison for conspiracy in the murder of another mobster.
		Gagliano was cleared by the RCMP and eventually appointed to the Chrétien cabinet, becoming a minister of state in September, 1994, and labour minister in January, 1996.
	www.nicaso.com /pages/doc_page180.html (1141 words)

	thecannon.ca : News : Article
		Gagliano said he did not know that Liberal-friendly advertising firms were raking in millions of dollars in commissions and fees for their role in the program, often with no value to taxpayers.
		Gagliano was testifying in a packed room in Parliament's Centre Block, returning to the political home that he had left under a cloud of patronage in 2002.
		Gagliano said he was shown lists of events that were to receive sponsorships, but he did not know that the paperwork and the contracts were being mishandled.
	www.thecannon.ca /news_details.php?id=1009 (1058 words)

	CTV.ca \| Alfonso Gagliano hints he may sue government
		Former public works minister Alfonso Gagliano says he is being scapegoated and denied due process in the $100-million federal sponsorship scandal.
		Gagliano was the minister in charge of the department from 1997 until January 2002, when then-prime minister Jean Chretien made him ambassador to Denmark as controversy started to sprout about the department's advertising spending.
		Gagliano said was "not aware of the scandal as such" and never discussed the program with Chretien or Martin.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1078489324305_19?hub=TopStories (552 words)

	CNEWS - Canada: Cdns paid Gagliano's moving bill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gagliano and his wife, Ersilia, shipped almost 3,000 kg of furniture and personal effects by sea at the start of his January 2002 appointment, according to the former ambassador's expense claims obtained under the Access to Information Act.
		Gagliano flew to Copenhagen in February 2002, a full four months before he received his Foreign Affairs Canada briefing on his new job.
		Gagliano was fired by PM Paul Martin on Feb. 10 when Auditor General Sheila Fraser revealed the gross mismanagement of the $250-million sponsorship program under his term as Public Works Minister.
	cnews.canoe.ca /CNEWS/Canada/2004/09/20/pf-636763.html (270 words)

	Auditor-Gagliano-Newsmaker, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Alfonso Gagliano sighs prior to his appearance before a Commons committee in Ottawa, in this 2002 file photo.
		Since Gagliano, 62, took up his job as Canada's ambassador to Denmark in April 2002, he has toiled, for the most part, in obscurity in Copenhagen, similar to most members of the Canadian diplomatic corps around the world.
		But back home, Gagliano has continued to be a contentious figure because of federal advertising contracts that were awarded to a series of Liberal-connected firms in Quebec while he was minister of public works.
	www.cp.org /premium/ONLINE/member/World/040210/w021049A.html (697 words)

	wcr:06/16/2003 -- Chretien denies Vatican rejected ambassador
		Gagliano was not refused by anybody," Chretien told the House of Commons June 10.
		Gagliano, who left cabinet in January 2002, amid charges of cronyism in his department, had long been rumoured to be in line for an appointment as ambassador to the Vatican.
		Calls for a public inquiry into Gagliano's handling of the public works department were renewed in recent days amid allegations that his son, Vincenzo Gagliano, had benefited from federal contracts awarded to a printing company that employed him.
	www.wcr.ab.ca /news/2003/0616/vatican061603.shtml (352 words)

	CBC Montreal - Gagliano denies ties to crime family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The allegations against Gagliano were initially printed in Thursday's edition of the New York Daily News and repeated in the House of Commons by Conservative Leader Stephen Harper.
		Gagliano has come under fire in recent months over his role in the controversial sponsorship program, which sent millions of dollars in commissions to Liberal-friendly ad firms in Quebec.
		Martin removed Gagliano from his job as ambassador to Denmark soon after Auditor General Sheila Fraser released a scathing report on the program, saying "every rule in the book" had been broken in the effort to raise the federal government's profile in Quebec.
	montreal.cbc.ca /regional/servlet/View?filename=qc-gagliano20041119 (327 words)

	Sympatico / MSN : News : CTV.ca
		Gagliano was shuffled out of federal cabinet three years ago and fired as ambassador to Denmark last year.
		In other testimony Wednesday, Gagliano said he heard rumours in the summer of 2000 that some ad agencies were double-dipping and charging more than one commission for work under the program.
		Gagliano didn't name the agencies, and it wasn't clear whether the allegations were ever backed up with solid proof.
	sympaticomsn.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1107539966762_102949166?hub=topstories (716 words)

	MDN/FC : Conférence de presse : The Government of Canada Announces a Plan to Acquire New Maritime Helicopters
		Alfonso Gagliano: Well we'll -- in the next few days a letter of interest will be put out and we'll have the (inaudible) and once that's terminated we will proceed with a formal offer to purchase and the formal bidding will take place.
		Alfonso Gagliano: Écoutez, je l'ai dit tantôt, je le répète, cette stratégie d'achat pour les hélicoptères n'a rien à faire avec l'élection parce que c'est un processus qui va durer plusieurs années.
		Alfonso Gagliano: Définitivement c'était une bonne raison parce que premièrement nous achetons aujourd'hui des hélicoptères qui sont pour les besoins d'aujourd'hui et demain.
	www.dnd.ca /site/Newsroom/view_news_f.asp?id=177 (5076 words)

	New York Daily News - Crime File - Stoolie: Canada pol in mob (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gagliano was identified as a longtime soldier in the Bonanno crime family by Frank Lino, a former Mafia capo-turned-informer.
		The group met at a catering hall, and during the meeting, a Bonanno gangster, Joseph Lopresti, introduced Gagliano to Lino as a made man in the family, FBI documents state.
		Lino was shown an array of photographs and identified Gagliano, the FBI documents state.
	www.nydailynews.com /news/crime_file/story/253857p-217343c.html (388 words)

	Edited Hansard * Table of Contents * Number 193 (Official Version) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Speaker, Alfonso Gagliano's conduct as public works minister is now the subject of at least one police investigation and involving Groupaction.
		Gagliano is aware is perfectly accessible through all of this process and he too is accessible to those who are doing the investigation.
		Yet Alfonso Gagliano did not adhere to it and was given an ambassadorship by the Prime Minister.
	www.parl.gc.ca /37/1/parlbus/chambus/house/debates/193_2002-05-28/han193_1450-e.htm (618 words)

	New York Daily News - Crime File - Claim that pol's in mob rocks Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		During the sit-down at a catering hall, Lino said, Gagliano was introduced to him as a politician and a soldier in the family, according to the documents.
		Gagliano's denials came as opposition party member Stephen Harper discussed The News report on the floor of the House of Commons and demanded answers from Prime Minister Paul Martin, head of the Liberal Party.
		Gagliano was dismissed as ambassador in February after his name surfaced in a corruption scandal swirling around his former job as public works minister.
	www.nydailynews.com /11-19-2004/news/crime_file/story/254290p-217732c.html (364 words)

	LES AFFAIRES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gagliano, with access to Canada's police and spy agencies, would have remained in the dark.
		Gagliano a friend, but that the minister did not help him obtain contracts with the Canadian government.
		Gagliano on behalf of Canada Post to a meeting with the Polish minister in charge of the postal service.
	www.vigile.net /ds-affaires/gagliano/01-11-7-globe.html (385 words)

	The Globe and Mail: printer-friendly page
		Gagliano asserted that he did not play any role in the 1999 hiring by Canada Lands of one of his friends and organizers, Tony Mignacca.
		Gagliano is the government's regional minister and the Liberal Party's top organizer in the province.
		Gagliano has surrounded himself with "political operatives" and "hangers-on" who directly call civil servants to try to shape their decisions.
	www.theglobeandmail.com /servlet/RTGAMArticleHTMLTemplate?tf=tgam/realtime/fullstory_print.html&cf=tgam/realtime/config-neutral&articleDate=20020109&slug=wxgagle&date=20020109&archive=RTGAM&site=Front (831 words)

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		Gagliano has also gone out of his way to play down rumours that he wants to become the next Canadian ambassador to the Vatican, which might be a convenient face-saving way to get him out of sight.
		Gagliano is known to have insisted on his personal candidates for even the most minor positions, in which people are paid only a modest per diem for a few days a year.
		Gagliano himself has said of his boss, "I served the way he wanted me to serve." The application of patronage in party politics is disagreeable, but probably within the bounds of tolerable behaviour.
	www.sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca /~ab133/Archives/Digests/v04n400-499/v04-n448.txt (3990 words)

	SHINY HAPPY GULAG: Two Cheers for Justice Teitelbaum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gagliano was seeking intervenor status in a motion launched by his longtime boss, former prime minister Jean Chretien.
		Gagliano's application says he shares the same concerns as Chretien, who accuses Gomery of displaying his bias in a series of remarks.
		Gagliano has laid his hands on at least $357,500 of the taxpayer's money, and spent it for his personal gain.
	www.bondwine.com /gulag/archives/000256.html (1010 words)

	Gagliano stoops to a new low (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Alfonso Gagliano lashed out at the PM during an interview with Sun Media, accusing Martin of taking Canada back to pre-1995 conditions and laying the foundation for a new sovereignty referendum.
		Gagliano said the PM has given the auditor general's report on sponsorship too much clout, pointing out that Public Works had conducted internal audits on the program and measures were taken to fix the situation.
		Gagliano pointed to the whopping Bloc Quebecois victory in the June election and the rising popularity of the separatist Parti Quebecois as proof that Martin is failing Canada.
	forums.army.ca /forums/index.php?topic=2236.msg123017 (2675 words)

	CNEWS Canada - Gagliano to answer kickback claims
		Alfonso Gagliano has been sacked as Canada's ambassador to Denmark and ordered home to answer questions about the scandal-plagued federal sponsorship and advertising program in Quebec.
		Gagliano first came under fire in August 2000 for awarding contracts to Quebec advertising companies.
		Gagliano left the cabinet two years ago and was appointed ambassador to Denmark by Jean Chretien.
	cnews.canoe.ca /CNEWS/Canada/2004/02/11/344024.html (360 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Federal sponsorship scandal
		Alfonso Gagliano got a free trip to Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2002 when then-prime minister Jean Chrétien appointed him ambassador to Denmark.
		It's a nice, well-paid gig in a faraway, friendly country, and Gagliano seemed to be enjoying himself in the northern kingdom.
		Gagliano and Chrétien are old political allies, both from Quebec, both involved in what has come to be called the scandal-plagued sponsorship program in the late-1990s.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/groupaction/gagliano.html (875 words)

	Your home for BC News - Italian group lobbied Gagliano's office for $5,000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		MONTREAL —; An Italian community group received $5,000 from a sponsorship slush fund after making a written request to former public works minister Alfonso Gagliano, the sponsorship inquiry was told on Tuesday.
		But it only became clear this week that a slush fund existed and that many of the events that received money from the fund were in Gagliano's riding and the central Quebec riding held for decades by former prime minister Jean Chretien.
		Gagliano has told the inquiry he offered political input into sponsorship funding but that bureaucrats made the final call -- a position contradicted by other witnesses and much of the documentary evidence.
	newsbc.ca /index.php/2005/03/15/italian_group_lobbied_gagliano_s_office__000 (507 words)

	Alfonso Gagliano -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He formerly held the title and position of His Excellency the Ambassador of Canada to (Click link for more info and facts about The Kingdom of Denmark) The Kingdom of Denmark.
		On November 17, 2004 an article in the (Click link for more info and facts about New York Daily News) New York Daily News alleged that Gagliano was associated with the (Click link for more info and facts about Bonanno) Bonanno organized crime family.
		In 1978, after a gangland slaying in Montreal (Click link for more info and facts about La Presse) La Presse reported that Gagliano was the bookkeeper for Agostino Cuntrera, cousin of cocaine baron (Click link for more info and facts about Alfonso Caruana) Alfonso Caruana.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/al/alfonso_gagliano.htm (242 words)

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