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Mr. Carignan also said he wasn’t willing to bend on the punishments being proposed.

Tuesday’s events followed explosive new accusations by Duffy Monday. He laid out allegations against not only Nigel Wright, Stephen Harper’s chief of staff, and the Prime Minister’s Office, but against Mr. Harper himself, who Mr. Duffy directly accused of overseeing a “scheme” to secretly pay back Mr. Duffy’s housing claims.

“So I was back home in P.E.I., after the prime minister had decided we were going to do this nefarious scheme,” Mr. Duffy said, “and Nigel was working the phones, coaxing me to go along with this terrible plan. He even said he would pay the $90,000. All I had to do was to go along and do as I was told.”

Mr. Duffy’s speaking notes, distributed to reporters Monday afternoon, didn’t include that line about being in Prince Edward Island, or about the prime minister’s alleged role, but did reference Mr. Wright “working the phones.”

Mr. Duffy also said that the Conservative party covered his legal bills after discussion of his expenses. He charged that Mr. Wright — who had paid the $90,000 toward Mr. Duffy’s housing expense claims — had also directed Conservative party lawyer Arthur Hamilton to have his legal bills paid, amounting to a further $13,560.

Conservative party spokesman Cory Hann confirmed the payment Monday, and Mr. Harper echoed that Tuesday.

“We have seen throughout democratic politics around the world that often people who think they’re doing the right thing, do things in the prime minister’s name of which he knows nothing,” Mr. Segal said. “I don‘t believe he knew anything about any of the cheques that were discussed. I think he’s a straight-up guy and I think that to suggest otherwise is both unfair and inaccurate.”