THE BASICS

Personal: Born in Sierra Leone; holds both Canadian and U.S. citizenship. Married to Pamela Mattock; four children. Education: Studied in Canada at Western University in London, Ont.; Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine in London, U.K.; Harvard; the University of Toronto; and the University of Tennessee. Degrees in medicine, natural sciences, medical and radiation oncology, medical management and administration. Professional: Worked in Edmonton, London, Ont. and Detroit as cancer specialist. Founded a cancer clinic in Nassau, the Bahamas. Ran the Detroit Medical Centre in Michigan, then the McGill University Health Centre. Taught at McGill, the University of Tennessee and the University of the West Indies. In 2008, appointed to the Security Intelligence Review Committee by Prime Minister Stephen Harper; sworn to the Privy Council. In 2010 he was made chairman of the committee. The controversies: When he resigned from the Detroit Medical Center in 2003, it was mired in debt. In 2011, he resigned from SIRC after he admitted he had wired money to an international lobbyist related to an infrastructure project in Sierra Leone. A few weeks later, he left McGill University Hospital under a cloud because of absences and outside business dealings. The Quebec provincial anti-corruption squad investigated, and laid fraud and money-laundering charges against him and his wife, related to a failed bid to build a super hospital in Montreal. Left Canada for the Bahamas in late 2011 when most of the scandals became public. Earlier this spring he announced he was suffering from late-stage lung and liver cancer and was too ill to travel back to Canada to answer fraud allegations. He and his wife were arrested in Panama in May. Mattock was extradited to Montreal and is out on bail. Porter is in jail in Panama, fighting extradition.