Corruption


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Corruption

Montreal Mafia controls 80 per cent of road contracts, whistleblower says “There is a group that controls contracts on [Montreal] Island, passing them around, one after the other, we call them the Fabulous Fourteen,” said…


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Bon Cop, Bad Cop

Cop corruption case revived Today the dramatic and costly case against the Toronto drug squad officers see-saws yet again when prosecutors try to revive charges thrown out by a judge in 2008. The charges were…


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Dragged out trial loses a judge

Judge steps down in B.C. corruption trial Judge Elizabeth Bennett is stepping down as the trial judge in the long-running political corruption trial involving former executive assistants to provincial Liberal cabinet ministers.


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White-collar crime—acquittal

Ottawa mayor acquitted of influence peddling [Justice] Cunningham said that O’Brien probably exercised “poor judgment” when he then encouraged Kilrea to speak to Conservative cabinet minister John Baird about the appointment, but did not commit…


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The Schreiber-Mulroney affair

Karlheinz Schreiber optimistic he’ll remain in Canada Schreiber told the Star last week he will use every legal means at his disposal to avoid being extradited, insisting that if he were tried in Canada on…