Nigel Wright, former chief of staff to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, arrives at the courthouse in Ottawa, Canada, August 14, 2015. REUTERS/Chris Wattie
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's aides were so concerned about the fallout of an ethics scandal involving a high-profile Conservative senator that they took tight control of Senate actions to try to limit the damage, a court heard on Friday.
Emails released during the third day of testimony by Harper's former chief of staff, Nigel Wright, at the fraud and bribery trial of Senator Mike Duffy showed Wright and other aides directing actions in the Senate, the upper chamber of Canada's Parliament, to try to quell an uproar in 2013 over C$90,000 (43,899 pounds) in dubious expense claims made by Duffy.
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