Dead People Donated Inordinately to the BC NDP

Elder Financial Abuse: BC NDP Targeting Little Old Ladies

I believe at least 10% of the government employees subjected to the covid-19 vaccination mandate either retired early or were fired. At least 30% of the still employed government employees took the covid shot out of coercion, not conviction. They are victims of assault. That’s an army of people with an axe to grind against the government.  One of them invited me to look into donations data to BC’s political parties.  That’s where this story comes from.  They are my peeps, my informants, my irregulars.

I downloaded all contribution data made to BC political parties since 2005 to June 2023.  That’s a 794,000 lines Excel spreadsheet.  Then I went to work and within an hour I found that dead people are contributing to BC political parties.  I never thought that people would bequeath to a political party, but some people evidently do.

From 2005 until Q2 2023, here are the amounts bequeathed to political parties in BC:

Obviously, something suspicious is going on with the BC NDP, over the last 18 years it received a disproportionate amount, 95.5%, of donations from dead people to all political parties.  For some mysterious reasons, non-BC NDP voters seem to be much less inclined to bequeath to a political party.

Since November 30^th, 2017, only eligible individuals, Canadian citizen, or permanent resident who reside in BC can make donations to political parties in BC.  That means no more contributions from corporations or unions which was the main source of the BC United and BC NDP.  Donations have to come from a natural person and there’s an annual limit.  In 2023, the annual limit was $1401.40 per individual, alive or dead.

Since these changes were put in place by the BC NDP, they made sure to slip in a backdoor to keep the flow of large estate donations coming a bit longer by passing an exemption for testamentary instruments signed before Jan 1^st, 2018.¹

After digging into some of the largest estate donations, I found that this topic has previously been covered by the CBC in Oct 2011, NDP raises most from deceased donors.  The Vancouver Sun wrote in April 2013, Retired teacher willed her $632,719 fortune to the B.C. NDP.  The Vancouver Sun article stated that longtime friends didn’t know the donor as having any interest in politics.  The lawyer who executed her will says otherwise.  This brings up the topic of financial abuse of vulnerable people.

These articles lack granular details which I will make evident by crunching and laying out the data.  The data, the truth speaks for itself.

Financial Abuse of Vulnerable Little Old Ladies

I worked as a compliance officer for an investment boutique.  In the investment industry, there’s a requirement to protect older and vulnerable clients.  The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) define “vulnerable client” as “a client who might have an illness, impairment, disability or aging-process limitation that places the client at risk of financial exploitation”. Canadian Institute for Health Information found that 1 in 4 senior age 85+ have been diagnosed with dementia.²  Diagnosis establishes the lower bound of the problem, many more are without diagnosis.

I ranked in descending donation size the top estate donations above $15000 to the BC NDP from 2005 to 2023.³

12 out of these 18 top estate donors were females.  That’s 66.6% of little old ladies.  The devil is in the details… 

Unexpected Geographical Concentration of Large Estate Donors

Where are these estate donors from?  Out of 18, I traced 14 via obituaries and news articles.  Of these 14, 10 are from Vancouver Island.  I called that the Vancouver Island connection.

Instead of an expected geographical distribution across the province, there is an inexplicable geographical concentration of top estate donors from Vancouver Island and West Vancouver.  This suggests agencies or common interests at play.

Next suspicious subset of estate donors: 5 out of 10 on Vancouver Island come from Nanaimo. 

Former BC NDP MLA is the Executor of least two large Estate Donors to the BC NDP

The executor of both Olive Fairbairn⁴ ($465,996.34 donation) and Helen Cole⁵ ($15,000 donation) was Leonard E. Krog, former BC NDP MLA and current mayor of Nanaimo. 

The July 31^st, 2017, $15,000 donation of Helen Cole was not directed to the BC NDP party, but to the Parksville-Qualicum Constituency Association, the first riding that Leonard E. Krog represented from 1991 to 1996.  What a first strange coincidence.

The estate donation perfectly matches with $15,000 of “expenses” incurred on April 5^th and 6^th 2017 by the Parksville-Qualicum Constituency Association for the campaign of Sue Powell.⁶ What a second strange coincidence.

That $15000 of expenses was mostly and likely financed with $14,000 of personal loans from these individuals due in Mid-August 2017:

The $15,000 donation came right on time on July 31^st to pay off those loans that initially financed $15,000 of campaign expenses.  Perfect timing, what a third strange coincidence.

Note that the estate of Helen Cole was still open to receive claims against it until Sept 26^th, 2017.  So how come $15,000 of cash assets were distributed out of the estate before all potential claims had arrived?  If Helen Cole bequeathed $15,000 to the constituency of Parksville Qualicum, then it should have arrived at the earliest on Sept 27^th, 2017, the day after the deadline to present a claim against the estate.

Was it really the will of Helen Cole to pay for that?  Or, was the $15,000 of expense in April 2017 incurred knowing that “some” revenues would materialize? Or was it the will of Helen Cole to give discretion to her estate executor, Leonard E Krog, to donate her money to whatever he sees fit?  Or did Helen Cole even exist?

It looks like the July 31^st, 2017, $15,000 donation from the estate of Helen Cole was driven by the need to pay for $15,000 of campaign expenses that occurred 3-4 months prior the donation.

I would really like to see hard receipts of goods and services rendered in support of that $15,000 expense for the Sue Powell campaign of Parksville-Qualicum in 2017.  Without any such receipts then the $15,000 estate donation of Helen Cole looks more like a veiled transfer of cash to five individuals through campaign finance operations.

A Crime Scene of Financial Abuse

If I narrow down the top estate donors to the BC NDP from 2018 to 2023 that are above the annual donation limit, we get this:

10 out of 11 estate donors were females.  That’s 90.9% of estate donations greater than the annual limit were from little old ladies.  That gender statistical skew in the largest estate donations above limit and after 2017 is a red flag.

The will and last wishes of vulnerable old ladies may have been embezzled by bad actors such as corrupt executors to the benefit of the BC NDP.  This is a despicable crime that betrays the NDP promise of social and economic justice.  It’s theft from the dead.  It’s a vile crime that deserves its own section in the criminal code.

What credibility to care for our elders who built our country does the BC NDP has left?

Knowing this; Why on Earth would any BC NDP voter, who cares about social and economic justice, bequeath, or even donate to a party that financially abuses vulnerable little old ladies?

Is the BC NDP Smurfing Revenues Via Multiple Ghosted Identities?

The $20000 Connection

I found another disturbing pattern in donations to the BC NDP originating from estates.

Looks like these people somehow had an agreement to each bequeath $20000 to the BC NDP upon their death.  Notably the $20000 even donations are almost exactly a year apart in July.  Looks like there’s a common interest tying these estate donations.

In the non-estate donations to the BC NDP, I did find another suspicious pattern related to $20000 prior to Nov 30^th, 2017, in the non-estate donations.  In September 2017, the pattern was 11 donations of $1818.18 from 11 different corporations on the same day.  11 x $1818.18 = $19,999.98, $20,000 for all practical purposes.  Obviously, someone needed to pay $20,000 to the BC NDP but also needed to obfuscate the origin.

My internal radar for fraud is on red alert for identity theft of dead people and money laundering.

Ghosting and Smurfing

The suspicious estate donations to the BC NDP have multiple angles.  Looking on a yearly basis at the number of estate donations, I found this inexplicable change in the years 2017, 2018 and 2019.

An abnormal number of estate donations occurred in 2017, 2018 and 2019.  Maybe single estates are making multiple donations?  I then looked at the number of unique estate donors to the BC NDP.

There are more donations than the number of unique donors.  Therefore, some estate donors are making multiple donations.

Of the 75 new estate donors over the years 2017, 2018, and 2019, roughly 50 new estate donors were setup on automatic periodic debit plans and also received irregular payments.

Why would anyone bequeath money to a political party using automatic periodic debit plans?  This is something that a living person does.   

Ghosting is a form of identity theft using the accounts of dead people.  They’re dead and nobody’s looking.  It can be done by a relative of a deceased, the executor of the will, by a corrupt legitimate organization, by organized crime, by any these colluding together for multiple purposes, not just one targeted transaction.

Typically, ghosting will be used to obtain credit cards and launder money.  Here, ghosting could be used to skirt political donation laws.

The use of automatic debits from an unusual number of estate accounts in 2017, 2018, and 2019 suggests smurfing money, a money-laundering technique.

Investopedia explains smurfing:

“A smurf is a colloquial term for a money launderer who seeks to evade scrutiny from governme A smurf is a colloquial term for a money launderer who seeks to evade scrutiny from government agencies by breaking up large transactions into a set of smaller transactions that are each below the reporting threshold. Smurfing is an illegal activity that can have serious consequences.nt agencies by breaking up large transactions into a set of smaller transactions that are each below the reporting threshold. Smurfing is an illegal activity that can have serious consequences.”

·       “Smurfing is a money-laundering technique involving the structuring of large amounts of cash into multiple small transactions.

·       Smurfs often spread these small transactions over many different accounts, to keep them under regulatory reporting limits and avoid detection.

·       Smurfing is a form of structuring, in which criminals use small, cumulative transactions to remain below financial reporting requirements.”

I believe that there’s a high risk that money laundering and illegal contribution activity took place with the BC NDP.

Average $250 Donations or Less to BC NDP Show Unexpected Stability over Four Years

I reviewed the last 15 years of financial statements of both the BC NDP and the BC United.

In BC, the financial reporting of political contributions requires political parties to disclose the name of the eligible individual contributing greater than $250.  It is that requirement that allowed the analysis of the last 18 years of estate donations made to the BC NDP. 

All contributions of $250 or less are aggregated into one sum and reported in the financial report of a political party as a single item together with the number of individuals making those contributions.

These two quantities (total contributions under $250 and # of donors under $250) which normally vary widely based on public opinion support of the party, the generosity of the donors, and distance to next election allow to calculate the average contribution under $250 each year.

Average contribution under $250 = Total contributions under $250 divided (/) by # of donors under $250.

Here’s how the average contribution under $250 looks like over the last 15 years for the BC NDP and BC United.

What is normal and expectable is that the average donation of $250 or less will vary widely because the two quantities that determine it, all donations under $250 and the # of donors under $250, vary widely with public opinion, generosity of donors, time to next election, etc. 

What is unexpected is to find a quasi-straight line or continuous period of 4 years of stability which are the years 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021.

BC Elections Act requires that contributions greater than $100 must be made by cheque with the name of the contributor on it, money order with the contributor’s name on it, credit card in the name of the contributor, or e-transfer from an account in the contributor’s name. 

The $100 threshold tying the contributor’s name to the contribution is a traceability constraint, it makes audits easy.

This unexpected stability of average donation under $250 converges to $99.87, which is 0.13% away from the $100 limit that requires electronic methods of payment only.

This suggest that some overarching donation program was in place during those four years and that the donations were not made independently, in other words, there is some unlawful unidentified agency acting on the BC NDP with respect to contributions under $250. 

There’s time overlap of suspicious donation patterns in two different types of donations to the BC NDP.  Motivated by the need to gain a financial advantage over the BC United, the BC NDP engaged in unlawful fundraising activities.

A criminal probe and money laundering inquiry would reveal further details.  Since the BC NDP and Federal NDP are integrated organizations, this will likely lead to the Federal NDP funding practices.

The BC NDP contribution issues of ghosting and smurfing via estate accounts in 2017, 2018 and 2019; overlapping together with the presence of a common interest causing the average contribution under $250 to converge to $100 (the electronic audit trail limit) for four years in a row in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021.  These are the second leg of the design of the financing advantage of the BC NDP over the BC United.

The first leg of the design of the financing advantage of the BC NDP over the BC United was the removal of the financing advantage of the BC United with Bill 3 – 2017:Election Amendment Act, 2017 which I’ll demonstrate next.

The BC NDP Changed the Election Act to Turn the Table on the BC United

Political outcomes are significantly dependent on funding; When the BC Elections Act was changed at the end of 2017 by the BC NDP to restrict donations to natural persons only, that was not only for the sake of election integrity or protecting the political will of BC residents. 

There was the ulterior motive to nullify the BC NDP’s ideological communist handicap that is inherently offensive to the business communities that employs most of the voters.  The BC NDP needed to take out business contributions which favored the BC United, but they also had to take out union contributions which favored them so that the whole thing doesn’t look too hypocritical.

The following table shows the historical yearly revenues of the BC NDP and BC United coming from contributions greater than $250.

We see that the advantage of the BC United was practically nullified in 2017 and reversed starting in 2019 to the BC NDP. 

The removal of business originated contributions was the first leg of the manufacturing of the BC NDP’s current financing advantage.  The second leg of that advantage are the large estate donations coming from vulnerable little old ladies, the ghosting and smurfing of estate donations, and inexplicable donation patterns under $250 abuses discussed above.

Elections BC – Compliance Audits

Obviously, there’s something fishy and bizarre about the donation patterns to the BC NDP.  Elections BC is currently auditing the 2022 annual financial reports of the Green, BC NDP, BC united and Conservative Party of BC.

I hope Election BC is quietly doing its thing and that it will table a report that will shock the BC political landscape.  If Election BC sees what I’m seeing, the RCMP should be raiding the BC NDP soon.

There’s Hope – Don’t be Cynical.

BC residents have a unique opportunity in the next election to get out of this cycle by voting for the BC Conservatives that’s been resurrected by dissident John Rustad, followed by Bruce Banman, who both had enough of the Swamp.  They’ve quit the Swamp.

For all practical purposes, despite that the Conservative Party of British Columbia has been on the books for a hundred years, it’s a new party with new people, fresh blood.  John Rustad and Bruce Banman have turned their backs to the corruption of the BC United.

For BC United voters the switch is easy.  For BC NDP voters, the idea to vote for a conservative brand is more off-putting but consider that the BC NDP has failed its promise to deliver social economic justice, has failed the elderly, has wrecked the healthcare system by firing 10% of the nurses, has exacerbated a drug-overdose epidemic, is unable to address runaway real estate prices dragging everybody into poverty.  It’s time for BC NDP voters to ditch the BC NDP and let new blood in.

I invite the rest of the fired and forced into early retirement former and current government employees to reach out to me with data.  I’ll shine light in very dark places.

1. Bill 3 – 2017: Election Amendment Act, 2017 section 69: Transition – testamentary instruments: “Section 186.03, added to the Election Act by this Act, does not apply to testamentary instruments made before January 1, 2018.”

2. Dementia in Canada: Summary

3. There are two entries for “Robert Mallen” and “Robert D Mallen” I just counted him once. In the early 2000, Robert donated about $50000 yearly over several years, some donations are simply with his middle initial.

4. Retired teacher willed her $632,719 fortune to the B.C. NDP

5. Copyright (c) Queen's Printer, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada - Volume CLVII, No. 34 August 24, 2017

6. Parksville-Qualicum Constituency Association - Financial Statement - 2017