A story that began over the travel expenses filed by one city councillor on a trip to a Quebec conference last year has now exploded into something larger, raising questions about #yyccc 's financial disclosure practices, accountability and oversight.
RECAP THREAD
RECAP THREAD
1/ Following a FOIP into #yyccc expenses from the FCM conference, we reported on Jan 27 that Coun. Magliocca expensed two to three times as much as his colleagues. We also revealed a significant portion of council travel expenses routinely go undisclosed: calgaryherald.com/news/local-new…
2/ Magliocca responds with promise to repay a portion of his expenses, says he will cover hospitality bills for alcohol and steaks that he says were consumed while networking/lobbying other elected officials. “I’ll pay for my booze,” he said on Jan. 27: calgaryherald.com/news/local-new…
3/ “I don’t remember even meeting him”: On Jan 31, we first reported that some of the people that Magliocca claimed to have dined or drank with in Quebec said they never met with him. Magliocca said he mixed up receipts, calling it “clerical error." calgaryherald.com/news/local-new… #yyccc
4/ Other councillors begin weighing in on the unfolding story: “Everybody makes mistakes,” said Coun. Chu. “You move on and you learn from it.” From @jasonfherring : calgaryherald.com/news/local-new…
5/ Magliocca stands up in council chambers on Feb. 3 and publicly apologizes, pledging to repay some $2,100 in hosting expenses. “Calgary taxpayers expect better from me,” he said. calgaryherald.com/news/local-new…
6/ The number of people who say they never dined with Magliocca in Quebec City increases to eight, according to report by @meksmith — one official said he’d returned to Alberta the day before he was supposed to have sat down to a steak dinner w/ Magliocca calgaryherald.com/news/local-new…
7/ Amid calls for an inquiry into Magliocca’s expenses, the city’s integrity commissioner said that he hadn’t begun investigating since he’d yet to receive a formal complaint. calgaryherald.com/news/local-new…
7.5/ Chestermere Coun. Yvette Kind disputes this and says she first submitted a complaint on Jan. 31 and resubmitted it again a few days later. Kind was named in Magliocca's receipts from a $331 bar tab at the Le Château Frontenac — a meeting that Kind says she never attended.
8/ LATEST: City’s integrity commissioner confirms he has now received a formal complaint, but recuses himself from investigating Magliocca's expenses after learning the councillor expensed a “social lunch” with him in 2019. From @meksmith : calgaryherald.com/news/local-new… #yyccc
