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medeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-16-06 11:15 AM
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Scotland Yard investigating Tony Blair re selling peerages
By Westminster Editor James Cusick http://www.sundayherald.com/56811

Lord Levy, who was arrested and questioned last week by police in the cash-for-peerages investigations, has told friends it was not his idea, but “Number 10’s” to conceal cash donations by wealthy donors by hiding them as commercial “loans”.
The revelation, believed to have formed part of Levy’s statements to Scotland Yard under caution, will unnerve Tony Blair and his senior Downing Street aides, who are now preparing for the Prime Minister himself to be questioned.

Levy’s recollection of events to detectives investigating the alleged sale of peerages centres on the period last year when Labour were struggling to fund the coming general election.
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medeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-16-06 08:27 PM
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1. seat in House of Lords..
no one responded to this...but with Blair in Carlyle group it just shows the unethical practices Blair shares with Bushie. reminds me of US attorney jumping off top of London hotel I was staying at who gave $1million to Abromoff.

"Scotland Yard’s specialist crimes directorate are investigating allegations that Labour put peerages up for sale in a covert market – that in return for hidden donations, it offered donors a future seat in the House of Lords."
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