Sounds like Mammo got caught with outright fraud--
BenSpurr 11:59am via TweetDeck
Integrity commissioner says event invoices to lobbyists were altered to show different amounts, different payees.
CBC News just said that the Integrity Commissioner is recommending maximum penalty - 3-months salary withheld.
Maybe his electors will now smarten up and rid us of his continued presence on Council - he really gives slimy toads a bad name!
CP24 says:
The city’s integrity commissioner has ruled that Coun. Giorgio Mammoliti broke the code of conduct by accepting $80,000 raised by a fundraising dinner in his honour and is recommending that council suspend his pay for 90 days as punishment.
The $500-a-plate dinner held last May was organized by Mammoliti’s son Michael and billed as a chance to help the Ward 7 councillor “continue to fight the good fight at city hall.” in invitations distributed to invited guests.
In her decision, integrity commissioner Janet Leiper said that by accepting the profits from the event Mammoliti violated Article IV of the code of conduct, which prohibits members of council from accepting any gifts related to the “performance of his or her duties.”
In choosing to recommend that council suspend Mammoliti’s pay for three months, Leiper opted for the most severe penalty available to her. The only other available penalty for violating the code of conduct is a formal reprimand from council.
“I recommend that council consider an appropriate sanction for the breach of the code of conduct. A number of considerations may be taken into account, including the quantum of the breach. The amount of the gift is significant, being 160 times greater than the maximum allowable personal gift to a member of council within the recognized exceptions,” Leiper wrote. “Second, it cannot be said on the available evidence to date that the breach was a good faith breach. The councillor was copied on certain key pieces of correspondence about the event after his return to work from his health issue.”
The dinner was held two weeks after Mammoliti returned to work after undergoing a series of emergency brain surgeries and the councillor has previously said that it was organized without his knowledge to help celebrate his return to good health.
In her report, however, Leiper said the event was a fundraiser and was described as such in several correspondences between organizers.
Leiper also said that the event was particularly inappropriate given the guest list, which included several companies that possess or have bid on contracts with the City of Toronto in the past as well as a number of lobbyists.
If council votes to accept the proposed sanction, Mammoliti will be docked about $26,000 in pay.
Read more:
http://www.cp24.com/news/integrity-...broke-code-of-conduct-1.1897300#ixzz36QGEw22J