[net-gold] Fwd: COUNTRIES: CANADA: Ford Brothers Helped Business Client Lobby City for Tax Break
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- Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 12:02:24 -0400
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From: David P. Dillard <jwne@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, May 13, 2014 at 10:37 AM
Subject: COUNTRIES: CANADA: Ford Brothers Helped Business Client Lobby City
for Tax Break
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COUNTRIES: CANADA:
Ford Brothers Helped Business Client Lobby City for Tax Break
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Ford Brothers Helped Business Client Lobby City for Tax Break
Greg Mcarthur and Elizabeth Church
The Globe and Mail
Published Monday, May. 12 2014, 6:00 AM EDT
Last updated Monday, May. 12 2014, 10:57 PM EDT
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/
fords-helped-lobby-for-clients-tax-break/article18605744/
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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and his councillor brother Doug Ford helped one of
the customers of their family business to lobby the city's highest ranking
bureaucrat for a special property tax break and repeatedly intervened with
city staff without disclosing the company had a commercial relationship
with the Ford family, a Globe and Mail investigation has found.
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In the months after the mayor and Councillor Ford took office in 2010 they
intervened for Apollo Health and Beauty Care, a soap and shampoo company
that unsuccessfully urged City Manager Joe Pennachetti to hand it a
generous property tax grant. Apollo's proposal failed when Mr. Pennachetti
refused to make an exception for the company, but a cache of e-mails,
letters and memorandums obtained by The Globe under the Freedom of
Information Act show a pattern of intervention by the Fords on Apollo's
behalf that extend to a variety of municipal issues, from stop-sign
designations to building permits.
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The Ford family's business, Deco Labels and Tags Inc., has manufactured
labels for Apollo, off and on, for about a dozen years, but this was not
disclosed to six senior civil servants who detailed, in interviews, how the
mayor and Councillor Ford inserted themselves into Apollo-related
discussions.
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"In terms of the mayor requesting I meet with a resident or a business,
this is the case where I spent the most time of any," said Mr. Pennachetti,
referring to his meetings concerning Apollo's efforts to secure a tax
grant, and the Fords' role in arranging those discussions.
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The city manager met with representatives from Apollo at least three times
in the spring of 2011, the records show. Mr. Pennachetti also was told by
the mayor, but declined, to attend a meeting at Apollo's factory when city
inspectors were investigating Apollo's alleged role in a sewage spill in
the summer of 2012.
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Asked if he was ever told Apollo was a client of the Ford family company,
Mr. Pennachetti said: "I had no idea."
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Mr. Pennachetti said he never felt pressured by the Fords to break from
city policy. But he said that had he known about Apollo's relationship with
Deco he may not have attended the meetings, and that the Fords should have
provided that information. "If they were a client, I think they should have
declared it," he said.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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