Disgusting Bureaucrats

Yes, they are disgusting.
Disgusting criminals, actually!

James and Lenz, and the entire story on misconduct, dubious and lucrative retirement and resignation benefits worth hundreds of thousands of dollars have people totally disgusted with bureaucracy.  They inappropriately "removed liquor", "purchased a wood-splitter and trailer for personal use", and on and on it went.

As previously reported here and in the Vancouver Province, the scandalous actions of Messrs. James and Lenz--senior bureaucrats in the B.C. Legislature--are actually being pursued by House Speaker Darryl Plecas.  He's called a Crusading Speaker by Michael Smyth of the Province, and I agree wholeheartedly!

I think Daryl Plecas deserves a medal from the citizens of B.C. once this is all over.

In a Province story October 13, 2019, Michael Smyth reported that "Darryl Plecas became immediately suspicious of potential waste and corruption going on around him."  Story was entitled "Crusading Speaker says he's only just begun to clean up legislature".

"I'm just a guy trying to get things done, and it's difficult because people try to thwart us," said Plecas.

And it continues to sicken me.

Take the November 24, 2019 Province story "RCMP probe at B.C. legislature focuses on wood splitter purchase". 

The hair on my neck stood up, so I'll address what irked me:

"James...administrative misconduct, including improper acceptance of a $258,000 retirement benefit."  James knew he wasn't entitled to that money!  Isn't that fraud?  Yup, it is in my books.

Yet in a report by former Supreme Court of Canada chief justice Beverley McLachlin, she cleared Lenz of any wrongdoing!  Why????  He was in cahoots with James! 

Even the October report by Doug LePard, former police chief, investigating Lenz' conduct concluded Lenz had committed "egregious breach of public trust" by not being truthful to McLachlin when discussing an incident several years ago involving the removal of liquor from the legislature grounds.
Isn't lying--perjury--to the chief justice a crime?

According to an affidavit in support of the production order, RCMP Const. Rafida Yonadim, an investigator with the federal serious and organized crime division, wrote that police received a complaint from Speaker Plecas containing "numerous allegations of offences committed by employees of the legislature."

Yonadim wrote that there were reasonable grounds to believe James used his position as clerk of the house to "obtain a benefit from the purchase of a trailer and wood splitter paid for by public funds for a purpose other than the public good."

The stated purpose of buying the trailer and wood splitter, which ended up costing $13,000, was so it could be used in the event of a "catastrophic emergency (natural disaster) to remove damaged trees and hydro poles and to create campfires".   That's what James said!  Incredible, isn't it?

Yonadim wrote that the trailer purchase did not go through normal procurement policy procedure and that James' research into the equipment purchase was "outside the scope" of his normal duties, as was his request to pick up the equipment himself.

And it gets worse...
Several locations on the legislature grounds were suggested as places to park the trailer but James "insisted" it be located at his home, the investigator wrote.

Witnesses told police that James' reason for keeping it at his home was "due to no parking available at the legislature even though there actually was space."

The wood splitter was removed from James' home under police supervision.  Both showed signs of use, and "employees at the legislature confirmed these items were never used at the legislature for their intended purpose, as originally planned," Yonadim wrote.

Lying and disgusting bureaucrats.
Commiting fraud.

They need to see the inside of a jail cell...
otherwise they'll be convinced they're above the laws that apply to the rest of us.

Thank you, Darryl Plecas!
Throw the bums into jail.