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An #AlltheChairsMen follow up from @610CKTB

Former Regional Chair @CaslinRemax remains proud of accomplishments and thanks Ombudsman fw.to/WpT4R9K

@610CKTB @CaslinRemax In texts to the radio station, @CaslinRemax says he is proud of the previous council's record of "accountability" and claims that "now the Ontario Ombudsman have found that no corporate policies were broken through the recruitment process"

@610CKTB @CaslinRemax What @Ont_Ombudsman actually found was that the hiring of Carmen D'Angelo was an "inside job" orchestrated from inside @CaslinRemax office with the main players being his coms director Jason Tamming and his policy director Robert D'Amboise.

@610CKTB @CaslinRemax @Ont_Ombudsman Further, the @Ont_Ombudsman found that the hiring of D'Angelo (and remember @CaslinRemax was the chair of the hiring committee along with being regional chair) was "unjust" and "wrong."

@610CKTB @CaslinRemax @Ont_Ombudsman And the @Ont_Ombudsman found the secret contract extensions @CaslinRemax awarded to D'Angelo was "unreasonable" and outside the bounds of best contractual practices.

@610CKTB @CaslinRemax @Ont_Ombudsman It is worth noting here, that on July 26, 2018 @CaslinRemax was directly asked by a councillor in a closed meeting if he gave D'Angelo that secret deal. Caslin lied and said he did not. A month later, he recanted in public and admitted what he did.

@610CKTB @CaslinRemax @Ont_Ombudsman The claim that @Ont_Ombudsman found no corporate policies were broken is not an accurate reflection of the Inside Job report.

@610CKTB @CaslinRemax @Ont_Ombudsman Aside from finding the hiring process was tainted from within (as we have been reporting for nearly two years) @Ont_Ombudsman found @NiagaraRegion lacked the policy structures to ensure the process could not be corrupted.

@610CKTB @CaslinRemax @Ont_Ombudsman @NiagaraRegion There are a number of questions about the #AlltheChairsMen saga that neither @StCatStandard nor the @Ont_Ombudsman have been able to answer. Among them, what did @CaslinRemax know, and when did he know it? Were Tamming and D'Amboise acting on his orders?

@610CKTB @CaslinRemax @Ont_Ombudsman @NiagaraRegion @StCatStandard We have made many attempts to interview @CaslinRemax about #AlltheChairsMen, including for today's stories. To date, almost all of those requests have gone unanswered.

@610CKTB @CaslinRemax @Ont_Ombudsman @NiagaraRegion @StCatStandard Our invitation to @CaslinRemax to sit down and discuss the hiring of D'Angelo, the actions of the chair's staff, the secret contract, and the impact on the local government and the community at large remains open. He need only call me.
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@610CKTB @CaslinRemax @Ont_Ombudsman @NiagaraRegion @StCatStandard You can read full coverage of the @Ont_Ombudsman report, its recommendations, and reactions here:

Inside Job: Ombudsman lays bare scheme to hire Niagara's CAO stcatharinesstandard.ca/news-story/974…

#AlltheChairsMen

@610CKTB @CaslinRemax @Ont_Ombudsman @NiagaraRegion @StCatStandard Sorry but the -30- was someone premature...There is a bit more fact checking to do here in terms of former regional chair @CaslinRemax's reaction to the @Ont_Ombudsman report.

@610CKTB @CaslinRemax @Ont_Ombudsman @NiagaraRegion @StCatStandard In his text to @610CKTB, @CaslinRemax says " I am glad that Niagara's Municipal Ombudsman and now the Ontario Ombudsman have found that no corporate policies were broken through the recruitment process. "

It is the first part of this sentence that is of interest.

@610CKTB @CaslinRemax @Ont_Ombudsman @NiagaraRegion @StCatStandard The "municipal ombudsman" is Toronto lawyer Marvin Huberman, whose investigation failed to find any of the core pieces of evidence at the heart of the scandal. That investigation was exposed for its flaws by @StCatStandard and now by @Ont_Ombudsman

@610CKTB @CaslinRemax @Ont_Ombudsman @NiagaraRegion @StCatStandard Aside from failing to properly investigate, Huberman accepted "improbable statements" by D'Angelo as credible because those statements were consistent with other improbable statements he made. Our break of his report can be found here: stcatharinesstandard.ca/news-story/874…

@610CKTB @CaslinRemax @Ont_Ombudsman @NiagaraRegion @StCatStandard Some of Ombudsman Paul Dube's comments about the Huberman investigation can be read here and there will be more coverage to come: stcatharinesstandard.ca/news-story/974…

@610CKTB @CaslinRemax @Ont_Ombudsman @NiagaraRegion @StCatStandard The Huberman probe did not get the job done and while he cleared the D'Angelo hiring (prompting council to officially call the matter closed - only to reopen it as more @StCatStandard investigative work was published) evidence since then has discredited his report.

@610CKTB @CaslinRemax @Ont_Ombudsman @NiagaraRegion @StCatStandard Both the @StCatStandard 's #AlltheChairsMen stories and the @Ont_Ombudsman report have highlighted the shortcoming of Huberman's work. The Inside Job report devotes considerable ink to how and why Humberman's probe was a failure.

@610CKTB @CaslinRemax @Ont_Ombudsman @NiagaraRegion @StCatStandard So to lean on the Huberman probe is to lean on a discredited report that failed to do a full investigation. And to claim the @Ont_Ombudsman found there were now breaches of policy is inaccurate.
Our invitation to @CaslinRemax to discuss his claims and more remains open.
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@610CKTB @CaslinRemax @Ont_Ombudsman @NiagaraRegion @StCatStandard @threadreaderapp unroll, please.