Moiz Karimjee, the lead Crown prosecutor in charge of the case against freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich, donated more than $17,000 to the Liberal Party since 2013. .As first reported by TrueNorth News, according to officials financing record from Elections Canada, Karimjee donated 29 times to to various Liberal Party efforts. The latest donation was a Sept. 30, 2019 donation of $250..But Karimjee also donated to the Conservative Party twice in 2010, with amounts totaling $800..On Twitter, Karimjee follows Liberal cabinet members Carla Qualtrough, and Catherine McKenna, as well as former Prime Minister Stephen Harper..On Tuesday, Karimjee was in a Ottawa court to argue Lich breached her bail conditions by meeting with fellow Freedom Convoy organizer Tom Marazzo. He said Lich could not be trusted to be out on bail again, and recommended she stay in jail..During the bail hearing, Karimjee became upset because Lich had once joked she is Metis and that the "race card works both ways," after she was called a racist. Karimjee brought up his own race, adding "systemic injustice is not the 'race card.' They are real issues.".The hearing resulted in the justice of the peace ordering Lich remain in jail until at least July 8, and claiming he would make a decision on her bail hearing the same day..In a prior heated bail hearing that saw Lich released, Karimjee asked the overseeing judge to step down from the trial.
