When Lisp Machine, Inc. went bankrupt, it was bought out by Guy Montpetit. Montpetit was involved in a number of dubious business deals, and the remnants of Lisp Machine were sucked into the morass. Here is a rough timeline of what happened. April 1985 - Guy Montpetit enters into a relationship with Michel Cogger. Circa 1986? - Guy Montpetit borrows a huge sum of money (on the order of $30 million) from Takayuki Tsuru. May 1986 - Cogger appointed to Canadian Senate, continues to receive money from Montpetit. April 1987 - LMI files for bankruptcy. May 1987 - Gigamos Holdings buys Lisp Machine, Inc. for $2.7 million and renames it Gigamos Systems, Inc. with Rick Greenblatt as president. 1988 - With help from Cogger, Montpetit sells Saskatchewan on a new computer system for translating government statutes into French. A $5-million grant is given to GigaText. May 1989 - Gigatext is first mentioned in the Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly. The shit hits the fan. November 1989 - Takayuki Tsuru sues Guy Montpetit to recover loans. Gigamos Holdings goes into receivership. Coopers and Lybrand to sell the assets of GigaMos. 1991 - RCMP charges Michel Cogger with accepting bribes from Guy Montpetit. 1993 - Cogger acquitted. 1996 - Canadian appeals court upholds acquittal. July 1997 - Canadian Supreme court quashes acquittal and orders a new trial. 1998 - Montpetit convicted of buying influence and received a suspended sentence. He was also ordered to perform 240 hours of community work. July 1998 - Cogger convicted. The minutes of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan contain a lot of amusing facts about the entire fiasco.
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