Firm at centre of robo-call storm unmasks mystery employee
An Alberta company swept up in the controversy over fake election robo-calls engineered by someone calling themselves “Pierre Poutine” is acknowledging one of its employees operates under a pseudonym.
But RackNine says the contractor – who volunteered briefly on a local Conservative campaign in Edmonton last federal election – has nothing to do with its automated call operations.
RackNine Inc. chief executive Matt Meier says a web designer and marketer who operates under the name of “Rick McKnight” is a Spaniard named Rafael Martinez Minuesa.
RackNine was first contacted by journalists Monday about “Rick McKnight” because the staffer seemed to have no footprint in the real world.
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