Last week’s search warrant on the Conservative Party headquarters, and the accompanying affidavit, suggests the election scheme for 2005-2006 was close to $1.1 million. It is alleged that the national headquarter transferred money to local candidates who immediately sent the money back as "payment" for campaign advertising.

[Read the full story on The Globe and Mail]

Lawyers have many ethical rules to follow, and one of them in Wisconsin bars them from having sex with “current clients”. The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled in October that attorney Michael Inglimo did not violate that specific rule since he had sex with his client’s girlfriend during a threesome, and regulation bans only direct sex with the client.

Of particular note is how the judges describe a threesome:

Counts 1 and 2 relate to Attorney Inglimo’s representation of L.K in a criminal case between April 2000 and January 2001. During this representation in October 2000, Attorney Inglimo had sexual relations with L.K.’s girlfriend in L.K.’s presence and with L.K. also engaging in sexual relations with his girlfriend during the sexual encounter. The referee further found, however, that there was no evidence that during the encounter there was any intimate physical contact between Attorney Inglimo and L.K.

[Read the entire decision here]