Taras Sokolyk

[1] Once a political organizer in Manitoba, Canada, he served as chief of staff to Progressive Conservative premier Gary Filmon in the 1990s.

[2] Sokolyk resigned his post in July 1998 after he was accused of helping to rig the 1995 Provincial Election.

[1] In November 1998 Sokolyk admitted that he had improperly used campaign funds in an attempt to split the vote to improve his party's chance of victory.

[3] After this admission Filmon claimed that he hadn't known about Sokolyk's actions and blamed him and aide Julian Benson for the vote-rigging scandal.

[8] By 2004 Sokolyk was working for hotel chain Canad Inns.