Former Harper Aide Had Ties to Money Launderer

Bruce Carson bought a condominium with a woman who had been convicted of money laundering in the U.S.

Revelations about the shady past of former Conservative staffer Bruce Carson are coming in by the day. It is now being reported that while he was one of Stephen Harper’s top advisers and receiving briefings on secret information about the Afghan war, he was in a relationship with a sex worker named Barbara Lynn Khan. In 2004, Khan was convicted of money laundering related to a prostitution ring in North Carolina. Carson is currently under investigation by the RCMP for allegedly lobbying the government to accept a contract with a company where his fiancée, another former sex worker, was employed. At the time he was hired to work in the PMO, Carson had been convicted of five counts of fraud.