Crime

The ex-bureaucrats charged in the alleged theft of $11 million in Ontario COVID-19 relief funds have spent more than $1.1 million on their legal defence — and now seek an additional $1.4 million.
That’s according to documents filed Tuesday with the Ontario Superior Court by Crown prosecutors who want to limit Sanjay and Shalini Madan from gaining further access to their assets.

The Madans, a married Toronto couple, were fired from their computer specialist jobs at Queen’s Park in 2020 after an alleged fraud of pandemic aid.

The removal of swift consequences for criminal behavior has led to an explosion of violence for even trivial slights.

On Monday, a 23-year-old in Brooklyn was shot, perhaps fatally, over cold French fries.

It began when Lisa Fulmore called her 20-year-old son, Michael Morgan—who has been charged with attempted murder and possession of a deadly weapon—to fume that McDonald’s workers were being disrespectful toward her over her complaints about cold fries. “I was on the phone with my son. I was like, ‘They in this McDonald’s playing with me,’” she said. Morgan then arrived and, after an argument with a McDonald’s employee, allegedly shot him in the neck and ran off. (Morgan’s girlfriend has also been charged for some as-yet-unrevealed involvement.) Did his mother disapprove of his actions? “My son is just saying that he gotta do what he gotta do and the [victim] came after him and whatever happened, happened.”

An 80-year-old store owner in Norco, California, thwarted an armed robbery over the weekend, protecting himself and his employees.

When convenience store owner Craig Cope noticed on surveillance cameras that armed men were going to enter his store, he moved strategically around the counter and grabbed his shotgun.

Service Ontario employees among 28 people charged after police bust major auto-theft organizations

Ghislaine Maxwell will earn as little as 15 cents an hour cleaning toilets at the Florida prison where she is serving her 20 year sentence, DailyMail.com can reveal.

The former socialite, who once lived a lavish lifestyle and counted Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton among her friends, will earn the paltry sum at FCI Tallahassee where she has just been moved.

Prison consultants said that Maxwell will clean toilets, bathrooms or wash dishes before being assigned a long term job like managing payroll or reading water meters.

A company allegedly bought $1.2 million worth of rapid tests from a third-party supplier promoted to Unifor employers by former union president Jerry Dias, according to a third-party probe into the controversy.

Dias allegedly received $50,000 from the rapid test supplier in exchange for promoting the pandemic safety tool to the union’s employers.

Former Unifor president Jerry Dias tried to impede a probe into his conduct and pressured a whistleblower to drop their complaint about an alleged kickback scandal — flouting the union’s code of ethics in the process, according to the findings of a third-party workplace investigation obtained by the Star.

After Dias unexpectedly announced his retirement earlier this year, Unifor revealed it had initiated a workplace investigation into claims that the long-time labour leader received $50,000 from a rapid test supplier he promoted to employers.