Why would an investigator be looking into a reporter’s wife and kids in this type of lawsuit?
You mean legitimately ? Who knows ? Maybe to find a counter-example of conflict of interest or something to leak to the press ?
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I want to say that this 'scandal' is not, for me, a case of individuals seeking out personal gain in return for favours ( as I suspect is happening with the businesses owned by the American president's family ) but rather business-as-usual laziness and lack of seriousness with Canadian resources.