Greg Kushnir

PREMIER DANIELLE SMITH The Premier’s Office was DIRECTLY and EXTENSIVELY INVOLVED in enabling, pressure-testing, and enforcing these specific property transactions. While Premier Smith herself was cleared of personal financial wrongdoing by the independent Wyant review, sworn court affidavits, leaked internal memos, and cross-referenced text logs prove that the highest echelons of the Premier’s Office were weaponized to force these real estate pipelines through the municipal and Indigenous frameworks. Breakdown of the Premier's Office operatives who orchestrated these transactions includes: 1. Marshall Smith Former Chief of Staff to the Premier As the most powerful non-elected official in Alberta, Marshall Smith ran the day-to-day operations of the Premier’s Office. The Transaction Leverage: Court filings from the Tsuut’ina Nation v. Braun lawsuit explicitly reveal that Marshall Smith utilized the full authority of the Premier's Office to pressure regional leaders. He was the key figure who introduced Chief Whitney to Mraiche in late 2022, pitching the $35-million recovery center as a "priority directive of the Executive Council." The Retaliation Vector: When independent public service executives and internal cabinet ministers, liike Infrastructure Minister Guthrie, tried to pull the land titles and audit the rapid capital outflow on the 124th Ave land-flip property and the Red Road Commons facility, Marshall explicitly coordinated the political counter-offensive from the Premier’s desk, resulting in the immediate termination of the AHS CEO and the blacklisting of dissenting cabinet members. 2. Khalil Mraiche Premier’s Office Policy Advisor The direct conflict of interest reached right inside the Premier's inner circle through Sam Mraiche's son, Khalil Mraiche. The Insider Role: While his father’s shell companies, Quantum Global, Executrade Capital, were actively routing the incoming $7.7-million in diverted transaction cash, Khalil was formally employed as a UCP Government Policy Advisor working directly under Marshall in the Premier’s Office. The Proximity: Legislative records show that Khalil’s hiring timeline perfectly intersected with the exact weeks that the Griesbach and Peace River apartment complex contracts were transitioned from private residential builds into sole-sourced, provincially funded social program spaces. This placement gave the Mraiche enterprise an active, daily listening post inside the very office authorizing the provincial grant expansions. 3. The Roommate Network Premier's Executive Staffers The property schemes physically intersected with the Premier’s staff through a highly irregular residential arrangement: The Tenants: While managing the Premier's legislative agenda, Marshall sublet rooms in the $1.6-million luxury home,purchased by Mraiche's sister, to two other high-level political staffers from the Premier's Office matrix. Eric Engler, Chief of Staff for Addictions, and Ehan Lecavalier-Kidney. The Flow of Capital: This arrangement meant that while the Premier's executive staff were advising the government on which land assets to approve for provincial funding, they were simultaneously passing taxpayer-funded housing stipends directly to the family of the billionaire contractor winning those exact real estate deals. Ultimately, the Premier's Office did not merely observe these transactions, it acted as the central political engine that shielded the network, suppressed internal whistleblowers, and utilized its immense executive authority to ensure Mraiche's real estate holding companies captured millions in public capital...7/

Mraiche family affair: "Investigative reporting, judicial reviews, and court filings indicate that at least seven immediate and extended family members of Sam Mraiche are woven directly into this procurement, staffing, and corporate network. Watchdogs frequently point to this multi-generational involvement to demonstrate how deeply the private contractor's family has penetrated provincial operations. The specific breakdown of the family members involved includes: 1. The Direct Descendant: 1 Relative Khalil Mraiche (Son): Corporate registries unmasked him as the sole shareholder of a private numbered company where senior AHS procurement chiefs, Prasad and Iskiw, quietly served as directors. Immediately following this arrangement, Marshall hired Khalil directly into the Premier’s Office as a UCP government political and policy staffer. • tors. Immediately following this arrangement, Marshall Smith hired Khalil directly into the Premier’s Office as a UCP government political and policy staffer. 2. The Siblings & In-Laws: 2 Relatives Dr. Fatima Mraiche (Sister): The corporate owner behind the numbered shell company that purchased the $1.6-million luxury Edmonton property where former Chief of Staff Marshall lived while actively overseeing provincial healthcare asset routing. Mohamed "Mike" Eldassouki (Brother-in-Law): A senior executive at MHCare Medical and the principal owner of the construction management company involved in the $100-million Indigenous recovery centre contracts. He is currently the central figure in the $30-million extortion and corporate forgery court battle against Melewka Homes. • Mohamed "Mike" Eldassouki (Brother-in-Law): A senior executive at MHCare Medical and the principal owner of the construction management company involved in the $100-million Indigenous recovery centre contracts. He is currently the central figure in the $30-million extortion and corporate forgery court battle against Melewka Homes. 3. The Extended Network: 4 Relatives Ahmad Jebara (Nephew): Formally hired as a UCP government policy advisor. Whistleblower timelines revealed his employment contract was finalized on the exact same day that Fatima Mraiche closed the deal on the luxury home for the Premier's Chief of Staff. Mahmoud Jebara (Nephew): Hired into a second governmental policy advisor role. Freedom of Information (FOIP) requests later revealed that the Alberta government possesses zero emails, briefing notes, or written policy work written by either nephew during their collective years on the public payroll. Hussein Moussa (Nephew): Directly placed inside the healthcare apparatus, serving as a procurement officer for AHS, the exact agency routing the multi-million dollar supply contracts. Ahmed Eldassouki (Nephew): Embedded into the political staffing infrastructure, serving as a ministerial intern within the UCP government. The Marital Connection: Justice Minister Mickey Amery: While not a blood relative, public records and legislative debates have highlighted that Alberta’s Minister of Justice is a close personal friend who is related to Mraiche by marriage. Amery faced intense criticism for introducing retroactive legislation that shortened investigative timelines right as Elections Alberta was actively probing Mraiche's campaign donation networks...1/