Reevely: Top Liberals acquitted in Sudbury bribery trial, but damage is done

A judge ended the corruption trial of two influential Ontario Liberals Tuesday afternoon, deciding that bribery charges against them were so weak he didn’t even need to hear a whole defence case before acquitting them.
Patricia Sorbara and Gerry Lougheed, a top campaign marshal for Premier Kathleen Wynne and a party potentate in Sudbury, walked out of court after Judge Howard Borenstein entered directed verdicts on charges under the province’s Elections Act.
The decision, at the defe