The media paints the Senate as having had no spending rules; but I know there were

Senator Mike Duffy heads to court during his 2015 trial for alleged fraud, bribery, and breach of trust. He was acquitted of all 31 criminal charges.
Recent media comments on Senator Mike Duffy's lawsuit against the Senate and the attorney general echo many of the inaccuracies that emerged during the Senator's trial, such as that there were no rules to regulate Senators' spending, and that the Senate was, to say the least, an indulgent place. Im...

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