Guilty by association

Ignorance is no excuse.... How many times can this Prime Minister and his cabinet claim ignorance of the criminals they surround themselves with?

In recent years, Jacobson had spent much time in the corridors of power, both in Israel and Canada, and in March a smiling Jacobson was photographed between both Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu at a reception in Ottawa. Jacobson claimed to have worked on the 2008 campaign for the Tories and was also considered a friend of cabinet ministers Jason Kenney and John Baird.

Really Canada it is never ending

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/fugitive-businessman-tory-ties-arrested-toronto-032017586.html

U.S. Justice authorities in San Diego had told CBC they were upset that no Canadian law enforcement agencies had responded to their July 30 warrant for his arrest when Jacobson failed to attend court after pleading guilty to money laundering.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/former-harper-adviser-charged-by-rcmp/article4444231/

Mr. Carson, who worked off and on as a political adviser to Mr. Harper between 2006 and 2009 and was known in Conservative circles as “the Mechanic” for his ability to fix tricky situations, is accused of using his association with the power brokers of Ottawa to sell filtration systems to Canada’s first nations.

"I wasn't aware", is not an excuse particularly for a cabinet minister or a Prime Minister. They MUST be aware and they MUST heed their staff when warned however it appears that they chose to ignore the facts that were readily available and had appeared in the news.

If the Carson incident were an anomaly then one could say it was an error however we must also look at the Rahim Jaffer fiasco where the Conservatives were caught with their hand in the cookie jar and they tarred everyone else.