Ian Mulgrew: David Eby’s money-laundering crusade a partisan, costly exercise

Premier David Eby obviously believes he can brazen out the collapse of his decade-long crusade against money laundering.

An expensive public inquiry that made some lawyers millionaires found nothing. Zip.

Two costly and lengthy RCMP investigations with code names — E-Pirate and E-National — uncovered nada.

OK, maybe a bylaw infraction — operating without a business licence.

Unwilling to accept the B.C. prosecution service’s decision to not lay charges, then-attorney general Eby hired a special prosecutor and appeared to stack the deck. He reminded Chris Considine a lower-charge standard could be used for prosecuting the only identified individual allegedly money laundering.