Who signed off on Stan Cho's expenses?

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STAN’S SQUAD

As Premier DOUG FORD and his PC crew grapple with hit after hit over expenses, one question that keeps cropping up: who signed off on the charges?

STAN CHO, the now-former Tourism Minister and MPP for Willowdale, has been at the centre of the ongoing drama, charging taxpayers and donors thousands for hotels, intimate steak-and-lobster dinners, Jays suites and more.

In the case of Cho, PC Party president MICHAEL DIAMOND called me up to point out that it’s not the party’s CFO who approved Cho’s individual campaign and riding association spending.

So, who did?

Welcome to the Stan Cho universe, featuring two key players:

— BARB HORBACZYK, who has served as Cho’s chief financial officer since 2019, including for the 2022 and 2025 elections, as well as the riding association annually.

Horbaczyk has a financial background — she worked at RBC for more than two decades, and as CFO, would have approved all of Cho’s expenses. She also happens to be his mother-in-law.

Cho gave her a s…