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category: "PROMIS Scandal"
tags:
  - Person
  - PROMIS
summary: "Reporter for the Toronto Star who was briefed by Sean McDade on his PROMIS investigation in 2000."
---

[[Allan Thompson]] was a reporter for the *Toronto Star*. He, along with [[Valerie Lawton]], was told by [[Sean McDade]] in August 2000 that there were issues he could not talk about related to his investigation, which centered on [[PROMIS]].[^1]
### Footnotes

[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal*. First Edition. TrineDay, 2010.