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29 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Jim Lightbody: "To be told in the media by our minister (Eby) that we were wilfully blind (and to read in media) our employees were turning the other way" ... Lightbody says he regrets not being able to respond. .. Rod Baker called me in September 2015 and he was angry
that our BCLC investigators were interviewing Rod Baker's River Rock Casino VIPs and scaring business away. Lightbody claims he responded with an email to Baker and said "no" BCLC won't stop interviewing River Rock VIPs. "I believe that is the last contact" Lightbody + Baker had
The evidence we've heard is BCLC investigators were told in 2012 not to interview River Rock VIPs after Rod Baker complained to BCLC brass. Lightbody was not asked by @CullenInquiryBC if that was his direction, in 2012.
So according to Jim Lightbody, he is now standing up personally for BCLC to Great Canadian CEO Rod Baker in September 2015 (as urgency spreads through BCLC regarding the RCMP's E-Pirate investigation according to the evidence from previous witnesses.) Image

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1. Tweeting a few evidence exhibits for timeline context. Heed's talk with Pinnock occurred in 2009, Pinnock says. And Coleman and Wanamaker warned of 'horrific' drug-money laundering suspicions in 2010, GPEB boss testified. Here is a BCLC investigator note from 2014 to GCG.
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1. I’ll be talking to @CKNW today. This is the bottom line Canadians must understand. By 2010 to 2012, senior investigators in the RCMP, B.C. Gaming enforcement branch, and @BCLC warned massive drug money laundering by China based gangs was using BC casinos and ‘VIPs’ to transfer
2. and convert warehoused $20 bills, making the cash piles vanish into casino vaults, with the wealth ultimately banked back in China, through repayments from VIPs to the lenders and collectors — loan sharks. Many of the VIPs were loan shark gang bosses themselves.
3. The evidence led so far, is that everyone with power over gaming in BC casinos, up to and including minister Rich Coleman and his deputy ministers, was warned, knew, and allowed it to continue. This evidence has been challenged.
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“He sat across from me, and Mr. Coleman opened the conversation, and said, ‘What about this money laundering?'” Vander Graaf recalled.
“And I said, ‘They are bringing it in, in $10,000 bundles.’
He says, ‘I know lot’s of people with $10,000 in their pocket.’ And I said, ‘If it’s in $20 bills with elastic bands on both ends, you better check your friends out.'”
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