Liberal CFO/Tweed co-founder could rake in marijuana money with legalization

He may volunteer in his role as chief financial officer with the Liberal Party of Canada, but Chuck Rifici is in line for a big pay day, thanks to one of the party's key platforms.

Rifici, who has been a member of the Liberal national board of directors since 2011, is also the co-founder of Tweed Marijuana Inc., Canada's biggest full-scale producer of government-sanctioned pot producer, which is based in Smiths Falls, Ont.

"I'm simply a shareholder," said Rifici in an e-mail to the Sun on Wednesday.

In the midst of the recent election campaign, Rifici branched out with two new ventures.

He was named director of the only licensed medicinal marijuana grower in Alberta, and launched a new company that seeks to cash in on the legal marijuana trade in the U.S., where business is booming.

The sum of his work in the industry has critics suggesting his cozy...

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