Wallin's Senate expenses . . being investigated

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Pamela Wallin's Senate expenses for board-related trips being investigated

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By Laura Payton, CBC News Posted: Mar 09, 2015 2:46 PM ET| Last Updated: Mar 09, 2015 6:29 PM ET

The RCMP are investigating 150 Senate expense claims made by Pamela Wallin, including those for 24 trips related to her work on corporate boards, according to documents filed in court.

The documents, released Monday at the Ottawa courthouse, were filed by the RCMP to seek more records for their investigation, including documents from two companies on whose boards Wallin served.

The records, including a document known as information to obtain a production order (ITO), were filed Jan. 27, 2015, suggesting the RCMP are continuing to investigate Wallin's spending.

RCMP Cpl. Rudy Exantus filed the ITO to seek records from Gluskin Sheff & Associates and Porter Airlines, where Wallin served as a board member.

Exantus wrote in the filing that he believes Wallin, between Jan. 26, 2009, and Oct. 3, 2012, committed breach of trust and defrauded the Senate of an amount exceeding $5,000.

Wallin was named to the Senate by Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Jan. 2, 2009, according to the parliamentary website.

Wallin filed 246 travel claims in the time examined. Wallin left the Conservative caucus in May 2013, as controversy built over spending by her and senators Mike Duffy, Patrick Brazeau and Mac Harb.

Of those, Exantus said 150 expense claims are "suspicious" and that the investigation into those claims continues.

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