Sipekne’katik cranberry project anything but fruitful – CBC
Oct 20, 2014
‘Questionable’ payments to contractor now running for band chief
It was supposed to be a way for a struggling band to make money.
But three quarters of a million dollars later and three years after construction of a cranberry bog began on the Sipekne’katik First Nation, not a single berry has grown there.
Instead, the project is mired in unpaid bills and what forensic investigators call “questionable” payments to a company operated by a man running for chief in next month’s band election.
The statements appear in a forensic report commissioned by the band to investigate its finances.
Michael P. Sack is one of four candidates and a current band councillor.
