OTTAWA – The Senate is sending the expense files on nine senators to the RCMP later today amid the reverberations of an explosive forensic audit that flags nearly $977,000 in questionable spending.
The Canadian Press has learned that in all, auditor general Michael Ferguson’s report identifies $976,627 in questionable spending among 30 current and retired senators.
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Of those, the Senate will be recommending that the Mounties do a criminal review on the spending of nine senators – two of them still sitting, the other seven retired.
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Just five senators account for about $546,000 of the spending Ferguson identifies in the audit, which was delivered to the Senate on Thursday and is to be released publicly next week.
The audit, which reportedly cost nearly $21 million to conduct, reviewed more than 80,000 transactions worth about $180 million.
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