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The purported transfer of money is contained in a trust account ledger presented to the Peguis First Nation by its former lawyer, Jeffrey Rath, to show how he disbursed millions of dollars he was handling for the band, court documents say.

In December, the first nation filed suit against Mr. Rath in Manitoba and Alberta, alleging that he billed the band inappropriately and failed to transfer money for an investment as instructed. Mr. Rath is countersuing.

‘I have no idea as to why the statement claims that I received close to $1 million. That is absolutely absurd’

In October 2013, just three months after he left the federal cabinet table, Mr. Toews registered as a lobbyist for Mr. Rath, to make representations to the provincial NDP government about the Assiniboia Downs horse-racing track, a joint venture between Peguis and the Manitoba Jockey Club.

Peguis and the Jockey Club planned a commercial development on the site. Federal rules brought in by the Conservatives bar cabinet ministers from lobbying the federal government for five years after leaving office, but not other levels of government.

Mr. Toews registered to lobby the provincial government on four different files before the Conservative government made him a judge in March 2014. As a lobbyist, he was working for 6572155 Manitoba Ltd., a numbered company registered by Ms. Meek in 2012.

“I’ve got to make a living,” he told iPolitics at the time.

Ms. Meek said this week that her company was paid less than $50,000 for the work it did for Mr. Rath and has never worked for Peguis. A ledger filed by Peguis in a Manitoba court, however, show that Mr. Rath reported to the first nation transfers of $966,500 for “strategic advice” from Ms. Meek’s numbered company. Ms. Meek said in an email Thursday that the ledger is “very odd.”