The day after she convened a news conference to discuss her relationship with a married employee, suspended Toronto bureaucrat Pam Coburn hopes the scandal is behind her.
“I’m hopeful that I’ve confronted the allegations publicly,” Coburn told CTV’s Canada AM early Tuesday, referring to suggestions of cronyism stemming from her office romance with Joseph Carnevale, 33, a married man who rose from temporary status to become her second-in-command in just 10 months.
According to Coburn, she was involved in just one of Carnevale’s promotions during that time.
“The only promotion of his that I was involved with was the most recent and it predated any romance in our relationship,” she told Canada AM.
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