1738 Hrs GMT London Friday 30 january 2009
KHOODEELAAR! is asking the leader of the UK House of Peers to investigate allegations that members of the House are engaged in activities to influence changes in legislation in return for cash.. The demand is grounded on the KHOODEELAAR! representations to the two Houses of the UK parliament of the past 3 years.
[To be continued]
From the Times online:
January 30, 2009
Exclusive: Peers for cash investigation - new undercover footage
The Sunday Times has released secret video and audio in which Lord Truscott offers to help reporters 'facilitate' a bill amendment
Jonathan Calvert
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The Sunday Times secretly filmed Lord Truscott, one of the four peers who the newspaper revealed were prepared to assist in changing legislation for cash, during a meeting with the undercover reporters in the St James’ Hotel and Club in London on Wednesday January 21, 2009.
The recording shows Truscott telling the reporters, posing as lobbyists, that he will work with them to “facilitate” the amendment to the Business Rates Supplement Bill on behalf of their client.
Discussing the strategy for their lobbying campaign, he says he will help identify the members to talk to so that he and the reporters can approach them. He offers to meet the “Lords people” on his own.
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Later he describes how he had previously helped to ensure that the Energy Bill was favourable to a paying client who sells “smart” electricity meters.
The Sunday Times has also released an audio tape recording from the first meeting between Truscott and the two reporters at the House of Lords on Wednesday January 14. He discusses his fee of £2,000 a day, which would have amounted to £72,000 a year for the three-day-a-month contract he eventually proposed.
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