Five city councillors and both deputy mayors of Brampton released a letter condemning mayor Patrick Brown, alleging he is corrupt.
The letter alleges that Brown used his office as mayor to pay off cronies with taxpayer dollars, employed nepotism and shut down city council’s investigations of the allegations.
On Tuesday, the Conservative Party of Canada’s Leadership Election Organizing Committee (LEOC) disqualified Brown from the party’s leadership race amid allegations that his campaign had violated the financial provisions of the Canada Elections Act. LEOC did not specify what the allegations were.
Statement on Patrick Brown by five Brampton Councillors who launched a series of forensic investigations into allegations of widespread wrongdoing under his leadership. #Onpoli #Brampoli: pic.twitter.com/aOqRpXLkS6
— San Grewal (@sangrewal1) July 6, 2022
The letter from several of Brampton’s elected officials applauds the Conservative party for tossing Brown from the race, saying they have noticed a similar pattern of corrupt behaviour.
The councillors allege that Brown assigned lucrative government contracts to friends and acquaintances, despite these individuals not being qualified and not fulfilling their contractual obligations.
The letter alleges that Rowena Santos, regional councillor for Brampton’s Ward 1 and 5, enabled Brown’s corrupt activity and also engaged in cronyism.
“In the past few weeks senior staff informed us that $629,000 in contracts went to a firm that employed one of Brown’s closest political allies and a close friend of his main council enabler, Rowena Santos,” reads the letter.
“Other contracts were given to people directly tied to Brown or his chief of staff. Senior staff positions and other employment contracts went to glaringly unqualified individuals connected to Brown.”
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(4) Patrick Brown is the inevitable product of broken leadership-selection process
