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Canadian Press is reporting that not only does the daughter-in-law of Judy Sgro’s formerly favorite pizza man agree with the pizza man, so does another witness who has stepped forward today.

TORONTO (CP) – A friend of the pizza-store owner who alleges Judy Sgro promised he could stay in Canada if he helped her election campaign has come forward to claim he was there when the promise was made.

Harminder Singh Brar told The Canadian Press on Monday that the meeting between Sgro, who resigned as immigration minister last week over the allegations, and Harjit Singh, 49, who faces deportation to India on Thursday, took place in her campaign office last spring.

“I was there with him in the office,” said Brar. “I was there during the meeting. She was saying, ‘As long as you give us volunteers to do the work in our campaign, we’ll look after your immigration papers – we’ll see what we can do.’ ”

Brar, a friend of Singh’s for the past six or seven years, said a senior political aide was also at the meeting at Sgro’s north Toronto office, as was Brar’s teenage son.

Singh, who owns Pizza Market in Brampton, Ont., northwest of Toronto, sent pizzas and chicken wings down to Sgro’s campaign office every evening, Brar said.

Singh is not without his own baggage.  But none of this is new—it dates back to 1988 when he and his wife first applied as refugees in Canada but were refused.

[…] Singh’s credibility is being tested by revelations that he was found liable – along with his late wife and two sons – for defrauding Canadian banks through a sophisticated $1-million credit-card theft and forgery ring.

[…] Indian authorities said Singh had been convicted of forgery and of attempting to take a child out of India illegally. Singh denied the accusations, saying he didn’t know why his fingerprints were in Indian police files under another name.

Related charges in Canada were all stayed but he was ordered deported.

Tax records show Singh, who has bought and sold several properties and businesses in recent years including a $485,000 home, declared a total income of just $5,800 in 2003, half of what he declared in 2002.

A former lawyer is also suing him for more than $57,000 in unpaid legal bills.

This is one hellacious pizza pie.

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