Schreiber told The New Yorker in 1999 that " I don't know that I want to be an actor for the rest of my life.

Schreiber told Mansbridge that Franz Josef Strauss had a policy of helping to elect conservative-leaning governments around the world, by financing their campaigns, and that the Canadian case was just one example.

Schreiber also told Mansbridge that Mulroney knew that the $ 300, 000 in cash that he received from Schreiber from 1993-1994 was coming from the Thyssen account, and that the arrangement called for Mulroney to lobby on behalf of Thyssen to develop the Bear Head project, once he stepped down from office as prime minister in June, 1993.

* Schreiber told to leave Canada, CBC News, December 22, 2004

Karlheinz Schreiber said in an interview with the program that the money came at the request of a Mulroney aide, who told Schreiber the former prime minister was short of funds.

Robert Thorn ( Liev Schreiber ), an American diplomat stationed in Italy, is told that his son died soon after birth.

According to the same program, the crisis committee delegated to make decisions on how to deal with the incident consisted of Bruno Merk ( the Bavarian interior minister ), Hans-Dietrich Genscher ( the West German interior minister ) and Manfred Schreiber ( Munich's Chief of Police ); in other words, two politicians and one tactician.

But a key fact was unknown in 1997, and had not been elicited under sworn testimony in which Mulroney had denied business dealings or significant meetings with a business associate: Mulroney later confirmed that he had personally accepted cash payments from his business associate Karlheinz Schreiber, a German-Canadian businessman who had been a paid broker for Airbus and other companies.

CBC Television reported on February 8, 2006 that the money Schreiber paid to Mulroney originated in a Swiss bank account code-named " Frankfurt ".

Schreiber also claims Mulroney's attorneys later tried to induce him into perjury by asking that he sign an affidavit falsely stating that he had never paid any money to Mulroney.

Mulroney said Schreiber had paid him as a consultant for this task only, in the context of the potential Bear Head project, which had actually been canceled three years prior to his accepting payment.

He is a senior counselor to Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst, a global private equity fund in Dallas, chairman of Forbes Global ( New York ), and was a paid consultant and lobbyist for Karl-Heinz Schreiber beginning in 1993.

Schreiber was a key figure in Canada's Airbus affair, in which he was alleged to have arranged secret commissions to be paid to Brian Mulroney and lobbyist Frank Moores in exchange for then Crown corporation Air Canada's purchase of Airbus jets.

In his second day of testimony before the Ethics Committee, on December 4, Schreiber stated that the $ 300, 000 which he paid Mulroney from 1993-1994 did not involve Airbus, nor did it involve any business which may have occurred between the two men while Mulroney was prime minister.

He stated that the $ 300, 000, paid in three cash payments to Mulroney in 1993 and 1994, came from a Swiss Bank account, where he had deposited the ' success fees ' which Schreiber had earned in commissions for his work as a lobbyist, from successful contracts with Airbus, MBB, and Thyssen in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Schreiber also stated that Mulroney may have also received Airbus money which Schreiber paid to the lobbying firm Government Consultants International, through GCI personnel.

Mulroney claims that this money was paid to him for consulting services he rendered to help promote a fresh pasta business, and to develop international contacts for Schreiber.

Schreiber explained that the $ 300, 000 he paid to Mulroney in three cash installments of $ 100, 000 each, in 1993 and 1994, did not come directly from Airbus, but was drawn from ' success fees ', money Schreiber earned in commissions for his lobbying work on behalf of Airbus, MBB, and Thyssen, in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Schreiber explained further that the money he paid to Mulroney was not for any work Mulroney did while he was prime minister from 1984 – 1993, but was a retainer for future work Mulroney would do for Schreiber after he left political office, as well as a reward for Mulroney's support for German reunification, which was achieved in 1991.

* That Schreiber retained Mulroney to promote the sale of military vehicles in the international market ( not within Canada ), that three cash payments totaling at least CAD $ 225, 000 were made by Schreiber to Mulroney in person, and that no services were ever provided by Mulroney for the monies paid

Schreiber had at his disposal $ 20 million from Airbus for the payment of secret commissions.

Schreiber transferred $ 500, 000 from " Frankfurt " to an account in Zürich code-named " Britan " on July 26, 1993 and used these funds to make the three cash payments to Mulroney in 1993 and 1994.

Karlheinz Schreiber alleged he gave $ 30, 000 in cash to Jean Charest's campaign for the Tory leadership in 1993.

Groundbreaking for the $ 35 million renovation occurred on March 9, 2010, with notables such as Liev Schreiber and Philip Seymour Hoffman in attendance.

As a result of subsequent Royal Canadian Mounted Police charges against Mulroney for accepting kickbacks on this transaction, a federal inquiry was launched, which found that Mulroney had accepted at least $ 300, 000 in cash from Schreiber after the transaction.

Schreiber allegedly made payments of $ 300, 000 in cash, in three instalments, to Brian Mulroney beginning one month after Mulroney had stepped down as Prime Minister, but was still a sitting member of Parliament.

Mulroney has since admitted to receiving $ 225, 000 from Schreiber, in cash, and not reporting this in his income tax returns until eight years later.

On November 21, 2007, The Globe and Mail reported that Mulroney spokesman Luc Lavoie stated Mulroney was broke in late August, 1993, when he accepted the first $ 100, 000 cash payment from Schreiber, while still a member of the Canadian House of Commons.

On December 4, 2007, represented by lawyer Richard Auger, Schreiber was granted bail when he posted $ 1. 3 million.

Schreiber stated that he had donated $ 30, 000 in cash to the unsuccessful 1993 PC leadership campaign of Jean Charest through his brother Robert Charest ; this was legal at that time.

Schreiber said he contributed $ 25, 000 himself, and that the late Franz Josef Strauss, Airbus chairman and former Bavarian premier, added a similar amount.

Schreiber also stated that he transferred at least $ 5 million from his deals to the lobbying firm Government Consultants International, which had three senior Tories, Frank Moores, Gerald Doucet, and Gary Ouellet, as part of its management team ; all three men had close ties to Mulroney.

Schreiber said that no receipt or invoice was issued at the time for the C $ 300, 000 deal with Mulroney.

Although there is no evidence that Mulroney accepted kickbacks while prime minister, he acknowledged in 2003 that shortly after stepping down in 1993 that he accepted $ 225, 000 over 18 months from Schreiber, in three cash payments of $ 75, 000 each.

Schreiber ridiculed their dealings in pasta-macaroni as nothing more than being sent a single flyer, and has stated that the three separate payments were actually $ 100, 000 each in $ 1000 bills, a total of $ 300, 000.

In 2004, William Kaplan clarified his position in a further book A Secret Trial, by criticizing Cameron for her role as a confidential RCMP informant on the Airbus matter, and Mulroney for not disclosing the fact that he had received the $ 300, 000 from Schreiber.

Schreiber obtained a stay of his extradition from the Ontario Court of Appeal on November 30, and obtained bail on December 4 by posting $ 1. 3 million.

" On November 30, Ontario Superior Court was set to hear an appeal from Schreiber on further delaying his extradition to Germany, which could have taken place as soon as the following day, December 1.

On November 30, Schreiber's lawyer Edward Greenspan was successful in an appeal to the Ontario Superior Court for a stay in Schreiber's extradition to Germany ; this was then delayed indefinitely, to allow Schreiber to appear before the Commons Ethics Committee.

Half of Schreiber ’ s 2, 000 residents trace their roots to the Italian city of Siderno.

He gave up this post in 2000 in the wake of the party financing scandal, over the acceptance of cash donation over DM 100, 000 contributed by the arms dealer and lobbyist Karlheinz Schreiber back in 1994.