Ontario bureaucrat fired for alleged $11M COVID-19 fraud says province to blame for tempting him!

Ontario bureaucrat fired for alleged $11M COVID-19 fraud says province to blame for tempting him!

Ontario bureaucrat fired for alleged $11M COVID-19 fraud says ‘incompetent’ province to blame for missing money

The theft of $11 million in pandemic relief aid was due to the Ontario government’s incompetence, not any “conspiracy,” insists the bureaucrat fired over the alleged fraud.

Sanjay Madan, who was the information technology leader on the Support for Families COVID-19 aid program, said in his statement of defence filed Thursday that it’s the province’s fault money went missing.

“There was … widespread misappropriation of Support for Families program money,” says the eight-page document prepared by lawyer Christopher Du Vernet.

He’s the real victim!

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After Defunding The Police, NYC First Lady Wants New Yorkers To “Defend Their Neighbors” As Crime Spikes

After helping push the “defund the police” movement last summer through her husband, New York City’s first lady, Chirlane McCray, is now asking the public to physically intervene in violent altercations as assaults cases spike.

The wife of New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said New Yorkers should “physically intervene” to stop the rise of violent crimes, nine months after her husband slashed police funds to be “redirected” to “youth initiatives and social services” instead.

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Too many Black and Indigenous people are in prison. Researchers say mandatory minimum sentences are part of the problem

The federal government’s criminal justice reform bill has generally been described as a good first step in tackling the overrepresentation of Indigenous and Black people in the justice system.

But it’s also sparked the question: Why not go even further with Bill C-22?

The bill would repeal mandatory minimum penalties for all drug offences and some firearm offences, expand the use of conditional sentences such as house arrest, and urge police and prosecutors to use discretion in order to keep drug possession cases out of the justice system.

WARNING: Archived Toronto Star article.

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Virtue-signalling Liberals strike out on preventing violent crime

Violent crime is a serious problem. It requires serious solutions. Unfortunately, Canadians will not get them from our current government. In less than a year, the Trudeau government has taken three swings at violent crime and missed every time. Their “solutions” will cost billions and may increase Canadians’ exposure to violent crime.

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A New Crime Wave—and What to Do About It

New York City rejected the policing lessons that led to its success, and violence is surging.

For two decades, many New Yorkers had assured themselves that a return to the crime and squalor of the early 1990s was unlikely. Former mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who presided over a 62 percent drop in major felonies from 1994 through 2001, proved that violence was not an urban inevitability. His successor, Michael Bloomberg, drove crime down further, through the 2008 recession and beyond. Both mayors set a benchmark for what was possible, preemptively discrediting any future mayor’s excuse that crime was beyond his capacity to overcome.

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Sons of bureaucrat fired after COVID-19 fraud are suing the Ford government for $1M, alleging they’re the real victims!

I bet his defence will be it was racist for the government to leave all that money laying around.

Sons of bureaucrat fired after COVID-19 fraud are suing the Ford government for $1M, alleging ‘indifference’ to theft

Two sons of the Ontario bureaucrat fired after the alleged theft of $11 million in COVID-19 relief funds are each suing Premier Doug Ford’s government for $1 million for “psychological” damages, the Star has learned.

Chinmaya Madan, 27, and Ujjawal Madan, 24, served the province with counter claims Friday charging the government’s “allegation of conspiracy” against them is “preposterous” and “has been advanced recklessly and maliciously.”

The brothers allege they are “victim(s) of identity theft committed by (their) own father,” because hundreds of bank accounts were opened in their names without their knowledge.

They’re the real victims!

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Four charged in Sydney and Canada over alleged extortion attempt of senior Iraqi MP

Four people have been charged in Sydney and Canada over alleged attempts to extort $10 million from a senior Iraqi politician, after what was described as a year-long campaign of intimidation.

Dual raids were launched at dawn on Wednesday after a string of attacks on a Sydney home and online extortion attempts linked to an address in Canada.

The target was the family of a “very senior politician” who is a dual Australian and Iraqi citizen and “spends almost all of his time in Iraq”, Australian police said.

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Charges stayed in one of Ontario’s largest Mob busts after alleged illegal conduct by investigators

One of the largest police investigations into organized crime in Ontario’s history has fallen apart after police allegedly illegally intercepted phone calls as part of a multimillion-dollar probe into suspected Mob activity in the Greater Toronto Area, CBC News has learned.

The operation, dubbed Project Sindacato, resulted in charges against nine people in Canada who police alleged were part of a criminal organization with ties to the Mob in Italy.

On Jan. 27, prosecutors stayed the charges against six of the accused, including alleged boss Angelo Figliomeni, after defence lawyers raised concerns that investigators committed “significant breaches of solicitor/client privilege.” Three of the accused previously had their charges stayed in 2020.

This seems an odd “own goal,” lawyer client privilege is a fundamental precept. Ain’t it?

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Malcolm X family demands reopening of murder investigation

The daughters of assassinated US black civil rights leader Malcolm X have requested that the murder investigation be reopened in light of new evidence.

They cite a deathbed letter from a man who was a policeman at the time of the 1965 killing, alleging New York police and the FBI conspired in the murder.

Raymond Wood wrote his responsibility was to ensure Malcolm X’s security team were arrested days before he was shot dead in Manhattan, his family says.

Three men were convicted of the murder.

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