Mulroney-Schreibergate: "This is bigger than Airbus"

More explosive allegations on Mulroney-Schreibergate in this morning's paper. Karlheinz Schreiber told reporters yesterday that he has new details to expose about his relationship with if and when he is called to testify at the public inquiry announced this week.
Schreiber said the scope of the inquest must look all the way back to 1979 for the truth to come out.

"The whole thing is much broader than only Airbus and it starts already at the beginning, in the early '80s, when the situation was that Brian Mulroney
intended to become the prime minister and needed help," said Mr.
Schreiber.

He went on to say:

"There are other revelations I intend to make in front of an inquiry which really made me very nervous when I heard about them. You will understand that I want to leave quite a few important things for the inquiry."

Schreiber's affidavit was made public last week and dropped three bombshells:
1)Schreiber claims that he struck the deal with Mr. Mulroney to deliver three cash payments totalling $300,000 on June 23, 1993, three days before he stepped down as Prime Minister;

2) that he spoke with Mr. Mulroney in Zurich in 1998 about a close advisor's request to "transfer funds [...] to Mr. Mulroney's lawyer in Geneva related to the Airbus deal"; and

3) that he wrote a letter for Mr. Mulroney to present to Mr. Harper in July, 2006, asking for a probe that would clear the air surrounding the Airbus affair.
None of the allegations has been proven in court.
Mr. Schreiber yesterday explained his version of how he knew about the July, 2006, meeting at Harrington Lake between the current and former prime ministers.
Mr. Schreiber claims he was contacted through an intermediary -- "someone important and close to Mr. Mulroney" -- requesting that he write a letter for an upcoming meeting with Mr. Harper.
"He needed urgently a letter because he was going to see Mr. Harper at Harrington Lake for a couple of days with his family and that will be the time he can speak with Mr. Harper about the whole case," he said. "But Mr. Harper is very concerned about the relationship between Mr. Mulroney and myself after this show ... with The Fifth Estate [where he revealed the $300,000 cash payments]."