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	Bingogate - TheBestLinks.com - TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, 1996, TheBestLinks.com:Stub, New Democratic Party ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Bingogate - TheBestLinks.com - TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, 1996, TheBestLinks.com:Stub, New Democratic Party of British Columbia,...
		Bingogate was a scandal that occurred during the administration of former Premier of British Columbia Michael Harcourt, involving the skimming of charity funds for use by the ruling NDP.
		Although Harcourt was never implicated in the scandal, he resigned as party leader and premier in 1996, citing the principle that as the leader of the party, he was ultimately responsible for any misconduct in his government even if it did not directly involve him.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Bingogate.html (144 words)

	LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION
		An editorial concerning a criminal conviction of the Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society (Bingogate) had mistakenly identified Jim Fulton as the Treasurer of that Society in place of Dave Stupich, another high-profile member of the NDP.
		The court found that the paper had not made "timely" or "appropriate" attempts to reach Fulton, nor had it investigated his involvement in Bingogate by other means.
		Hopefully this aspect of the case will be contained to its facts, i.e., the circumstance that Fulton’s utter lack of involvement in Bingogate "could easily" have been established if the paper had attempted to contact "a knowledgeable independent source".
	www.adidem.org /articles/DS6.html (923 words)

	Michael Harcourt
		This marked the first time that the B.C. had been in power since 1975.
		He resigned as premier in 1995 as the result of "Bingogate", in which NDP insiders used money raised by a charity bingo to fund the party.
		It was not believed that Harcourt had anything to do with the scandal, but he took responsibility for it.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mi/Michael_Harcourt.html (137 words)

	Harcourt, Michael Franklin
		Harcourt's government seemed immune to the scandals that plagued Ontario's NDP government under Bob RAE and BC remained one of the few areas of economic growth in the country.
		Harcourt was able to achieve much of his legislative agenda until the Bingogate scandal erupted in 1994.
		Although Harcourt had no direct involvement in the scandal, he became the focus of public wrath, and under intense pressure he announced his resignation in November 1995.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=M1ARTA0003574 (285 words)

	Public Eye Online - The gift that keeps on giving
		It's not bingogate, the allegations are that Basi and Virk bought several properties over the years and some were grow ops which the profits were paying for some of the mortgages.
		Bingogate was a few thousand trickling their way into the NDP membership fees over many years (and NDP members lost money at certain times due to NCHS debt, everyone was being scammed).
		On the up side, I think paries are already moving to limit the 'instant' members, such as the numbered forms that tie the recuiter to the member for the liberals and the '90 day' rule and recruiter member number on NDP memberships.
	www.publiceyeonline.com /archives/000415.html (875 words)

	British Columbia's Bingogate - Scandals, Boondoggles and White Elephants - CBC Archives
		For masterminding the Bingogate scheme, Stupich received a sentence of two years less a day, served in his daughter's home while wearing an electronic monitoring device.
		• In 2001, the Liberal government of Gordon Campbell pulled the plug on the Bingogate inquiry saying it had run too long — five years — and was too expensive at $10 million and counting.
		Harcourt suffers some paralysis from a 2002 accident at his cottage where he fell down a cliff and into the ocean.
	archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-73-1700-11689/politics_economy/political_scandals/clip6 (648 words)

	GOVINFO Archives - 2001: Forensic auditor surprised Bingogate I
		Vancouver - Forensic auditor Ron Parks is surprised and disappointed the B.C. government has pulled the plug on the Bingogate inquiry.
		Parks says." My concern as a member of the public is that there is little point in appointing public inquiries to look into such matters if the government of the day has the option of pulling the plug.
		If a public inquiry is not in a position to name names it clearly can't fulfill its mandate." Parks says the Bingogate inquiry might also have resolved another issue: whether political interference hampered investigations into the Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society in the 1980s.
	library.usask.ca /lists/govinfo/2001/0413.html (506 words)

	Are New Democrats In Canada - Political Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In 1995, he resigned as premier in the wake of the NDP Bingogate scandal; in which the NDP fund-raising arm was found to have skimmed charity funds raised through gambling in the 1970s and ’80s.
		The knock on him was that he couldn’t make the tough decision — pick the fall guy, any fall guy, and make him pay for a scandal that had little to do with his government.
		Then he slams not Gordon Campbell or the Liberals but the media and some members of the NDP and the trade union movement for their response to Bingogate.
	www.mapleleafweb.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=2662 (1468 words)

	Hansard -- Volume 12, Number 9 -- Tuesday, July 28, 1998 -- Part 3
		I could probably speak for hours on that, given that it's a sordid thing that goes right back to 1992, when the class of '91 first entered these hallowed halls, and was one of the first things that the Liberal opposition dealt with.
		I went on, at the time, to say: "This is a cover-up, another cover-up of this sordid mess." The sordid mess I was referring to then was Bingogate and the entire way it was handled, or mishandled.
		There are 64 criminal charges in the Bingogate scandal and still no payback of the money from the NDP to the charities.
	www.legis.gov.bc.ca /Hansard/36th3rd/h0728Pm3.HTM (21360 words)

	NDP minister was at centre of bingo scandal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		NANAIMO - One of the central figures in the Bingogate political scandal of the early 1990s died Wednesday.
		Former Ladysmith-Cowichan NDP MLA Jan Pullinger said that, apart from his troubles with Bingogate, Stupich served his community well.
		During his years in public office, Stupich played a lead role in the development of Malaspina University-College, Beban Park recreational centre, Neck Point Park, Newcastle Island Provincial Park and in the setup of the Islands Trust and B.C.'s Agricultural Land Reserve.
	www.canada.com /vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=a298cd75-8b5b-434f-afbb-5e262982b97b&k=39825 (438 words)

	GOVINFO Archives - 2001: Bingogate inquiry raises more questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		CBC News Online - British_Columbia News Digest 01/06/29 Vancouver - The former chairman of the commission looking into the Bingogate scandal says he's shocked and extremely dismayed the inquiry has been terminated.
		He also says there are plenty of political issues that needed to be investigated, that the public will never hear about.
		Plant says he made the right decision by pulling the plug on the Bingogate inquiry.
	library.usask.ca /lists/govinfo/2001/0422.html (309 words)

	Rafe Mair Online \| www.rafeonline.com \| Radio Editorials 1999 - 2001
		For example … I was distinctively underwhelmed by Attorney-General Geoff Plants answers yesterday to questions on the shutting down of the Bingogate Inquiry.
		I thought there should be an inquiry into whose fault it was.
		Since the only penalty to be paid for that was political – and that has been paid, in spades – from here on it we are going to spend the money we should have spent to finish the Bingogate Inquiry on an exercise to rub the NDP’s nose in it.
	www.rafeonline.com /archive/cknw/20010706.shtml (1053 words)

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		Certainly this seven year trend has been compounded in the last 1.5 years by the "Asian Flu" but the trend was established prior to that by this government.
		Furthermore, having apparently exhausted all possible means of making Bingogate disappear, it seems the NDP will have to attempt to pass legislation to retroactively put it to bed.
		They then blunder headlong into accusations of political hypocrisy and find themselves under investigation for their role in the recent Recall campaigns in Prince George North, Skeena and Comox valley.
	members.shaw.ca /ekcm1/092198.htm (662 words)

	Proud To Be Canadian .ca
		When we’re trying to attach a name or slogan to one scandal or another we tend to look to the past.
		When the British Columbia NDP was found to have been stealing from charities for years, commentators recalled the mother of all scandals; Watergate, and coined the not so original, “Bingogate”.
		And once it became known that the federal Liberals were involved in recruiting sex trade workers from Eastern Europe in order to comply with organized crime’s request for a regular supply of “fresh meat”, journalists came up with, “Strippergate”.
	www.proudtobecanadian.ca /columnists/index/writergroup/1722 (514 words)

	Gomery publication ban - bcsportbikes.com
		This smells just the same as when some bogus society was charged when the NDP ripped off the bingo games.
		The thing with Bingogate is that Mike Harcourt did the right thing and took responsibility for the actions of his party.
		The sponsorship scandal is much greater in magnitude than Bingogate was and I have very little respect for Paul Martin because he is trying to hide behind a commission and a wall of lawyers.
	www.bcsportbikes.com /forum/showthread.php?t=47902 (787 words)

	Gabriola Sounder News
		For years Gabriola was a center of provincial NDP crime.
		Local NDP MLA Dave Stupich plea bargained 64 charges to only being convicted of fraud in the Bingogate charity racket.
		His Bingogate mansion at the end of Berry Point Road (now with new owners) shows that the essence of socialism is a criminal attitude: To take instead of make.
	www.soundernews.com /fullstory/EEEuEkkEyAMismjfFR.shtml (293 words)

	Here's a smart idea! - bcTalk
		Sure as hell sounds like another Bingogate to me. So who determines "which" charity will be in charge of dispersing this new windfall, whose pockets are they lining and what laws are being circumvented with this new change?
		Why place public property into private hands unless there is some very good reason that will cause relatives to lose all hope of recovering their rightful property because the Liberals want to fatten the wallets of a few "friends".
		Sure as hell sounds like another Bingogate to me. So who determines "which" charity will be in charge of dispersing this new windfall,
	www.bctalk.com /forums/showthread.php?t=773 (1041 words)

	CBC - British Columbia Votes 2005 - Parties and Leaders - BIO
		The NDP's Mike Harcourt, who won the 1991 election, stepped aside in 1996 because of the scandal over the Nanaimo Commonwealth Society's channelling of charity gaming money to the NDP.
		While Harcourt wasn't implicated, he was faulted for not taking tougher action against those involved in what was dubbed "Bingogate."
		The NDP replaced Harcourt with Glen Clark, himself forced to resign in 1999 when he came under police investigation over a constituent's casino licence application.
	www.cbc.ca /bcvotes2005/parties/gordon_campbell.html (739 words)

	Gabriola Sounder News
		Leonard Krog bears a serious share of the responsibility for the fact that Gabriola Island has far less than its fair share of parkland.
		Of course this whole matter was lost in the shadow of Bingogate and the other NDP scandals of the time.
		And eventually the forest will grow back and maybe in the near future there will be another chance to save it.
	www.soundernews.com /fullstory/EEEVAFVZFkaZaIHnjC.shtml (466 words)

	CharityVillage NewsWeek Archives: NewsBytes June, 2001
		The B.C. provincial government announced last week that it is calling an immediate halt to the bingogate inquiry.
		The Smith Commission of Inquiry, commonly known as the bingogate inquiry, was set up in 1996 to look into gaming regulations in the province and the activities of the Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society, an NDP-linked organization that skimmed about $2.6 million from provincial charity bingo proceeds over four decades.
		Former NDP cabinet minister Dave Stupich pleaded guilty to criminal charges of fraud in the case in 1999 and was sentence to two years under house arrest.
	www.charityvillage.com /cv/archive/anew/anew01/anew0106.html (5835 words)

	Hansard -- Volume 13, Number 21 -- Wednesday, March 31, 1999
		It is one of the things that over time has added salt to the wound and has done much on a daily, monthly and now yearly basis to denigrate what is considered the job of a politician in British Columbia.
		Following Bingogate, there was Hydrogate, the Cayman Islands, offshore accounts, intrigue, foreign involvement in issues and efforts of B.C. and our economy -- things that the public were very worried about, that they were sure were unscrupulous and that caught their interest but also their dismay.
		While they were reeling from Budgetgate and recovering from Bingogate and Hydrogate, we got Skeenagate -- $330 million of taxpayers' money at a time when health care and education were suffering, $330 million in a cabinet minister's riding.
	www.legis.gov.bc.ca /Hansard/36th3rd/h0331p92.htm (22523 words)

	On Balance - Vol 9, Num 7
		In this most recent campaign, the NDP was implicated in the shady dealings of the British Commonwealth Holding Society in an affair known as "Bingogate," and in the controversy surrounding B.C. Hydro.
		However, the latter issues did not hold the imagination of the local media as the Socred scandals had during the 1991 election.
		Far from being judged on Bingogate and Hydrogate, the scandals associated with the NDP barely registered in media coverage.
	oldfraser.lexi.net /publications/onbalance/1996/9-7 (6023 words)

	Edited Hansard * Table of Contents * Number 012 (Official Version) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		However, before she or that party gives us lectures on propriety, perhaps she would consider that she is sitting over there with one guy who did time in jail for contempt of court and another was convicted of shoplifting.
		There is only thing worse than stealing from the taxpayers and that is what happened in bingogate out in British Columbia where the NDP was convicted of stealing from charities.
		Bélair): The Chair finds that the words that have just been used are a bit strong.
	www.parl.gc.ca /37/3/parlbus/chambus/house/debates/012_2004-02-17/han012_1215-E.htm (573 words)

	The Tyee’s Election Central Blog » Trail Mix: Donate-gate still growing
		During his 2001 campaign, Campbell routinely attacked the New Democrats for taking money from charities, in a scandal that became known as “bingogate.” His own government amended the Elections Act in October 2002, making it illegal for charities to give money to political parties.
		Sunday’s report comes on the heels of an article in Saturday’s The Vancouver Sun, which reported that the BC Liberal Party has refused to return thousands of dollars in donations it has collected from airports, colleges and other public entities.
		Liberal party executive director Kelly Reichert has called on Elections BC to conduct a review of all financial donations to all parties for the past decade â“ a time period that would conveniently sweep Bingogate into the discussion.
	thetyee.ca /electioncentral/?p=128 (6344 words)

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