When Lisp Machine, Inc. went bankrupt, it was bought out by Guy Montpetit.  Montpetit was involved in a number of dubious business deals, and the remnants of Lisp Machine were sucked into the morass.  Here is a rough timeline of what happened.

April 1985 - Guy Montpetit enters into a relationship with Michel Cogger.

Circa 1986? - Guy Montpetit borrows a huge sum of money (on the order of $30 million) from Takayuki Tsuru.

May 1986 - Cogger appointed to Canadian Senate, continues to receive money from Montpetit. 

April  1987 - LMI files for bankruptcy.

May 1987 - Gigamos Holdings buys Lisp Machine, Inc. for $2.7 million and renames it Gigamos Systems, Inc.  with Rick Greenblatt as president.

1988 -  With help from Cogger, Montpetit sells Saskatchewan on a new computer system for translating government statutes into French.  A $5-million grant is given to GigaText. 

May 1989 - Gigatext is first mentioned in the Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly.  The shit hits the fan.

November 1989 - Takayuki Tsuru sues Guy Montpetit to recover loans.  Gigamos Holdings goes into receivership. Coopers and Lybrand to sell the assets of GigaMos.

1991 - RCMP charges Michel Cogger with accepting bribes from Guy Montpetit.

1993 - Cogger acquitted.

1996 - Canadian appeals court upholds acquittal.

July 1997 - Canadian Supreme court quashes acquittal and orders a new trial.

1998 - Montpetit convicted of buying influence and received a suspended sentence. He was also ordered to perform 240 hours of community work.

July 1998 - Cogger convicted.

The minutes of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan contain a lot of amusing facts about the entire fiasco.