Taxpayers, however, will be financing the legal bills of some of DND staff who will be testifying at Norman’s upcoming trial, department sources confirmed
Vice-Admiral Mark Norman is one of only three individuals over the past two years whose request to the Defence Department for financial help with legal bills was rejected.
The figures were provided by the DND to Postmedia but the details of the individual cases were not released because of the federal privacy law.Federal employees can apply to have their legal costs covered under a special program for public servants facing legal issues arising from the course of their employment with government.
Norman, once the second highest ranking officer in the Canadian military, was charged last year with one count of breach of trust. But Alleslev countered that her question about whether Norman’s legal bills would be covered had nothing to do with the officer’s criminal trial or the pre-trial hearings that have been underway.
Officials with the Justice Department and the Public Prosecution Service of Canada have declined to release figures on how much the Norman prosecution has cost taxpayers.
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