“The RCMP has completed its thorough investigation into Sen. Pamela Wallin’s Senate expenses,” said the statement from assistant commissioner Gilles Michaud. OTTAWA — The RCMP closed another chapter in the long-running Senate expense saga Thursday by declaring they will not charge Sen. Pamela Wallin after an extensive criminal review of her travel claims. Former prime minister Stephen Harper appointed Wallin to the Senate in 2009, but Wallin left the Conservative caucus at the height of the expense scandal in 2013. RelatedWallin, along with Duffy and Patrick Brazeau, was suspended without pay from the Senate in November 2013 over disallowed expenses. She long maintained her innocence and argued she was being singled out for being an activist senator who rubbed some of her colleagues the wrong way.

Source: National Post May 19, 2016 11:25 UTC