{"id":91056,"date":"2017-09-14T01:19:20","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T01:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/ontario-premier-kathleen-wynne-testifying-today-in-bribery-trial-of-former-aide-organizer.html"},"modified":"2017-09-14T01:19:20","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T01:19:20","slug":"ontario-premier-kathleen-wynne-testifying-today-in-bribery-trial-of-former-aide-organizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/ontario-premier-kathleen-wynne-testifying-today-in-bribery-trial-of-former-aide-organizer.html","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne testifying today in bribery trial of former aide, organizer"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is testifying\u00a0on the fifth day of\u00a0the Sudbury bribery trial of a former aide and another Liberal organizer, in a scandal linked to a 2015 byelection.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Gerry Lougheed Jr<\/a>, a prominent Sudbury businessman and Liberal fundraiser, and Pat\u00a0Sorbara, formerly\u00a0Wynne&#8217;s\u00a0deputy chief of staff, are charged with bribery under Ontario&#8217;s Election Act.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">The Sudbury byelection scandal: what you need to know before the trial<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><strong>Kathleen Wynne to testify in bribery trial of key Liberal adviser<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.4285918.1505239006!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_620\/andrew-olivier-2014.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Olivier 2014\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"figure-caption\">Andrew Olivier speaks to supporters the Plaza Hotel following his loss in the 2014 general election. (Erik White\/CBC )<\/p>\n<p>Former Liberal candidate Andrew Olivier made the allegations after taping conversations with Lougheed and Sorbara\u00a0in which he claims to have been enticed to step aside to make room for Glenn Thibeault, who left his job as federal NDP MP to run for the Ontario Liberals.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><strong>Wynne threatens legal action after &#8216;defamatory&#8217; Patrick Brown statement<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both Sorbara and Lougheed pleaded not guilty\u00a0when the trial began last Thursday before Judge Howard Borenstein.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to CBC online, on radio and on television for coverage of the trial today.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/sudbury\/byelection-bribery-trial-five-1.4286446?cmp=rss<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is testifying\u00a0on the fifth day of\u00a0the Sudbury bribery trial of a former aide and another Liberal organizer, in a scandal linked to a 2015 byelection. Gerry Lougheed Jr, a prominent Sudbury businessman and Liberal fundraiser, and Pat\u00a0Sorbara, formerly\u00a0Wynne&#8217;s\u00a0deputy chief of staff, are charged with bribery under Ontario&#8217;s Election Act. The Sudbury [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-91056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}