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          <title>Staffers who quit amid Ontario Greenbelt scandal earned full year’s salary — despite resigning last summer</title>
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          <description>Ryan Amato was paid $156,769, while Jae Truesdell made $144,503: sources and information requests suggest both received exit packages after resigning during Greenbelt scandal</description>
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                                <media:description>A comic-style illustration of former Ontario housing minister Steve Clark and his former chief of staff, Ryan Amato, both wearing suits in an office. Clark is reading a document, and a speech bubble over Amato&#039;s head says: &quot;Leave it with me.&quot;</media:description>
                  
         
        

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          <title>Who is Ryan Amato, the political staffer at the centre of Ontario’s Greenbelt scandal?</title>
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          <description>A watchdog said his handling of the Greenbelt file was ‘chaotic and almost reckless.’ Now, new information links the political staffer to the head of the Ontario Provincial Police </description>
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