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The police were listening in when ex-Montreal mayor Gérald Tremblay cried on the phone to his former assistant in 2015 and asked to leave a document with her because he didn’t know what would happen to him.

The intercepted call, part of a wiretap operation carried out in the Quebec anti-corruption squad’s ongoing investigation into allegations of corruption in Montreal during the time that Tremblay’s Union Montreal party was in power at city hall, is detailed in one of 38 newly-released search warrants obtained by the Montreal Gazette.

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Tremblay, who resigned as mayor in 2012, and his former assistant are not charged in any criminal matter.

“Uh, Marie-Andrée?” Tremblay says in the Aug. 9, 2015 call that UPAC investigators transcribed in an affidavit to obtain a warrant to search the former assistant’s home in 2016.

“Will you do something for me?” Tremblay asks in the call on a Sunday morning, 11 days after UPAC investigators had searched his Outremont home and his country house.