The CBC
recently broke the story that Nalcor had awarded a multimillion dollar Muskrat
Falls construction contract to a company from Quebec called Opron - controlled
by a well known Montreal construction figure – Mr Joe Borsellino.
Opron Construction showed up on Nalcor's approved bidders list in
February 2013; the CBC story reported “the same month Giuseppe Borsellino testified
at Quebec's Charbonneau commission that he and his cousin were
51 per cent owners of the firm.”
Let’s go to
his appearance before the Charbonneau Commission into criminal activity in
Quebec’s construction industry:
“For two days, the construction boss
caught on video delivering cash to the headquarters of the Rizzuto crime family
has lurked in the back row of the Charbonneau inquiry, watching another witness,
Joe Borsellino, confess to bribing public officials while playing down links to
the mob.
Mr. Borsellino has proven a difficult
witness..... In one instance that angered commission counsel, he could not
remember depositing $1.8-million into a bank account until deposit slips were
produced.” - Globe and Mail February 6, 2013
