A key player in the 2011 Guelph robocalls scandal is getting immunity from prosecution in the Elections Canada investigation into misleading calls in the last federal election, CBC News has learned.
Andrew Prescott was the Conservatives' deputy campaign manager in Guelph, Ont., where supporters of other candidates complained they received misleading phone calls directing them to the wrong polling station.
Prescott has a written guarantee "the Crown has no intention" of charging him in connection with the misleading phone calls, according to a source close to the case.
The calls were directed at non-Conservative Party supporters.
The agreement says the Crown is interested in Prescott as a witness and not as an accused. It was reached sometime in December.
Michael Sona, 25, is the only person charged in the robocalls scandal. A former staffer to Conservative MP Rob Moore, he was candidate Marty Burke's director of communications during the campaign. Sona has repeatedly denied any involvement and says his name was leaked to the media by someone in the Conservative Party because of a previous scandal.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/robocalls-immunity-deal-struck-with-ex-tory-worker-andrew-prescott-1.2497625
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