J. Charles (Chuck) Guité is a Canadiancivil servant who was in charge of the federal sponsorship program, and is one of the main figures in the sponsorship scandal. He has been described as the man 'truly' behind the excesses of the program. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... (Redirected from 2004 Canadian sponsorship scandal) The sponsorship scandal is an ongoing scandal that has affected the government of Canada, and particularly the ruling Liberal Party of Canada for a number of years, but rose to especially great prominence in 2004. ...
On April 2, 2004, previously confidential testimony from a 2002 inquiry into suspicious Groupaction contracts was made public. In it, Guité admits to having bent the rules in his handling of the advertising contracts but defends his actions as excusable given the circumstances, saying, "We were basically at war trying to save the country... When you're at war, you drop the book and the rules and you don't give your plan to the opposition." April 2 is the 92nd day of the year (93rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 273 days remaining. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Groupaction Inc. ...
On May 10, 2004, Charles Guité was arrested by the RCMP along with Jean Brault, president of Groupaction, and charged with fraud in connection with the sponsorship scandal. May 10 is the 130th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (131st in leap years). ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jean Brault was the president of Groupaction, a Montreal advertising firm implicated in the Canadian sponsorship scandal. ... Groupaction Inc. ...
Today, Guite is discovering a whole new world of rules behind bars after a Montreal jury convicted him on five counts of fraud, a verdict expected to give the 62-year-old something like three to five years in prison when he is sentenced tomorrow.
Guite's conviction adds another spectacular chapter to the career of the man AdScam commissioner Justice John Gomery called a "likeable scamp," a power-happy bureaucrat once asked to take the honor salute at the RCMP musical ride after helping the Mounties to funnel over $300,000 of their own sponsorship money through a private account.
Second, Guite is only the third person charged and convicted in connection with the sponsorship scandal, a far-reaching tangle of corruption, kickbacks and fraud involving $350 million of public funds, thousands of federal contracts, and dozens of other players.
ChuckGuite reads on a bench outside the courthouse before being called back to the Palais de Justice to hear his jury verdict in Montreal on Tuesday.
Guite argued during the trial that all of the contracts were handed out in good faith and that his Public Works department was overworked in the wake of the 1995 sovereignty referendum.
Guite and Brault were charged in 2004 with the five counts of fraud and one count of conspiracy.
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