Duffy uses Maple Ridge to pay assistant’s cell phone bill, court hears

Former Duffy aide Diane Scharf tells court that although Senate administration had agreed to provide her with a cell phone to link her office computer email with her cell phone email, the Senate refused to pay for her monthly phone service. She says suspended Senator Mike Duffy offered to pay for it.

Suspended Senator Mike Duffy used a Senate contracting system he had arranged with an old friend—for procuring research, speech writing and other services on a confidential basis from his Senator’s office budget—to reimburse an assistant for a total of $488 in cell phone servic...

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