Brian Mulroney: The Unauthorized Chapter (Update)

Three weeks can be a long time in politics. In that time our story, first broadcast October 31, 2007, about Brian Mulroney’s attempt in the late nineties to conceal a questionable financial relationship with a businessman and lobbyist named Karlheinz Schreiber has gone from the status of historical controversy to the hottest political challenge the Harper government has had to face since taking office.

Then two weeks later Stephen Harper shocked everyone with an announcement: he was calling a public inquiry.

But it’s a story we first tackled more than a dozen years ago, when rumors surfaced about a shadowy German-born wheeler-dealer and his unusual influence among people close to the Mulroney government.

It has evolved since then into a Shakespearean tale of ego, money and ambition: the elements now fueling a political firestorm that threatens to consume the two men caught in the middle it and the government that is trying to control it.

This week we update the story that started it all.