Ex-bureaucrat pleads guilty to stealing $47.4M from Ontario government, gets measly10 years in prison

… While he had been initially charged with the theft of COVID-19 relief funds, he also admitted to stealing an additional $36.6 million as part of an elaborate “fee-for-service” computer scheme dating back to 2010.

… “I am very deeply sorry for my misconduct for a very long time,” said Madan, who earned $176,608-a-year as the Ministry of Education’s information technology leader on the Support for Families program until he was terminated in October 2020.

“I am very, very sorry to the taxpayers of Ontario. I know that nobody trusts me anymore. I am ready to face the consequences of my wrongdoing,” he said, appearing gaunt and sporting rumpled clothing.

 

10 years? It’s Canada so he’ll be drinking margaritas in Hyderabad in less than 4.

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What role did money play in Barry and Honey Sherman’s deaths?

Behind the shadows – He was a pharmaceutical mogul. She was a giant in the philanthropic community. Five years after Barry and Honey Sherman’s shocking deaths, the mystery still swirls about why they died. Could it have been their money?

When media reported on Dec. 15, 2017, that Barry and Honey Sherman had been found dead in their Toronto home, it became the rare Canadian event that garnered international attention.

“Very quickly, it became a big story,” said Matthew Campbell, a Canadian reporter and editor for Bloomberg Businessweek. “There aren’t a lot of stories from Canada that go global, and there certainly aren’t a lot of stories from Canada that you get asked about at dinner parties in London and Paris, as I was over the next few months.”

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#SeeItSayItIgnoreIt: Rape as “Non-Emergency”

Any migrants recently landed at Dover might be under the impression that the efficiency of our Border Force, chaperoning them to the latest stately home masquerading as an asylum centre, is indicative of the nation’s ability to get things done. Sadly, this is pretty much the extent of our public services: welcome to Britain, where nothing actually works. Not only is the UK’s public sector bloated out of all proportion, but its workers are also the least likely to show up in the morning (unless you count standing on the picket lines). If it’s not teachers, BBC journalists, university lecturers, or civil servants, it’s junior doctors going on strike—no wonder Ukrainian refugees are going home for treatment, rather than face the war zone of the NHS. 

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Canada police arrest ‘pedophile hunting’ group over child abuse images

Police in Canada have arrested members of a vigilante “pedophile-hunting” group, charging them with distribution of child abuse images, amid frustration over the group’s controversial tactics.

Quebec police announced on Thursday that six people had been arrested as part of an investigation into a group that had drawn complaints from the public.

Five of the suspects, all in their mid-to-late 20s, face charges of distributing the images, with some also charged with criminal harassment, intimidation and forcible confinement.

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WARMINGTON: Probe into brutal beating of teacher at youth jail shrouded in mystery

Guards and staff at the Roy McMurtry Youth Centre want to know the results of the investigation into an alleged assault of a high school teacher inside the jail last year.

The date of the assault last August has not been released but several staff at the Brampton facility, which houses both criminally accused and convicted youth between 12 and 17 years old, say it happened inside a locked classroom with one main teen inmate inflicting significant harm on the teacher.

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U.S. Should Set an Example to Combat Global Embezzlement

It remains unclear why Western governments are so reluctant to return ill-gotten funds to governments that badly need money for social and economic development.

Saudi Arabia and the Gulf monarchies exploring their geopolitical options with China has a dimension that the Washington debate has neglected: the kings, dictators, and their relatives across the world have accumulated hundreds of billions of dollars through the “privatization” of national budgets and/or what is known as “state capture,” where public service becomes the most profitable kind of business.

In the 1990s, authoritarian rulers like Presidents Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire or Suharto of Indonesia were accused of stealing not less than $5 billion and $20 billion respectively, sums that were never recovered. In the Mobutu case, Swiss authorities found only several million dollars in accounts that were returned to Mobutu’s family in 2009, while Suharto’s family was ordered to repay just $324 million more than fifteen years after he abdicated from the presidency.

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Shattered: Catholic community confronts its founder’s lies

ROCCA DI PAPA, Italy (AP) — The findings of an initial expert report were astonishing: One of the 20th century’s revered Catholic leaders, who built an international movement of community care for people with intellectual disabilities, perverted Catholic doctrine about Jesus and Mary to justify his own sexual compulsions and abuse women.

The findings of a second report were even worse: The movement he created had at its core a secret, mystical-sexual “sect,” and was founded for the precise purpose of hiding the sect’s deviant activities from church authorities.

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US charges Sam Bankman-Fried with bribing Chinese officials

The US has accused former FTX chief executive Sam Bankman-Fried of paying a $40mn bribe to one or more Chinese government officials in a revised indictment filed in federal court in Manhattan on Tuesday.

Prosecutors allege Bankman-Fried sent the bribe in cryptocurrency to Chinese officials in order to regain access to trading accounts that had been frozen by law enforcement in the country. The accounts were linked to Alameda Research, FTX’s sister company.

The new bribery charge was added to twelve counts already faced by the former FTX chief, whose exchange collapsed in November last year after it was unable to meet a wave of withdrawal demands from customers.

Maybe wonderboy will do serious time. Maybe.

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Victims of black crime matter, too

Two black teenagers brutally attacked an Asian mother of three, causing severe physical damage. Once the news finally picked up on her story, generous Americans donated more than $300,000 to a fund for her medical care. However, most victims of black crime are blacks, and few benefit from a GoFundMe. Worse, none benefit from the tens of millions of dollars that Black Lives Matter collected. That needs to change.

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‘No, of course not’: Moment Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer Alan Dershowitz says billionaire pedophile DIDN’T kill himself – before correcting himself to claim he did it ‘with the help of guards’

Alan Dershowitz, the former attorney for Jeffrey Epstein, has said in an interview the pedophile took his own life but did so with some help from the guards in his prison.

Dershowitz, a lawyer, Harvard Law School Professor and author, appearing in an interview with Kim Iversen on Rumble, was asked point blank whether or not Epstein took his own life.

Just a week after Epstein’s death, Dershowitz confirmed that he believed the criminal killed himself. When Iversen asked him Friday, he initially said ‘no, of course not.’

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Ontario crypto king kidnapped, tortured in an attempt to get millions in ransom, documents say

I always invest in pimply kid Ponzi schemes 

Ontario’s self-described crypto king was abducted, tortured, and beaten for days as his kidnappers looked to solicit millions in ransom, his father told a court in December.

New documents, obtained by CTV News Toronto, include details of the December incident where Aiden Pleterski was allegedly abducted from downtown Toronto and driven around southern Ontario for about three days.

The nearly 750-page report, released on March 14, also contains the latest findings in a months-long pursuit to trace millions of dollars invested into cryptocurrency and foreign exchange with the 23-year-old before he was petitioned into bankruptcy.

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2015 death of Murdaugh-linked teen Stephen Smith now considered a homicide

The 2015 death of Murdaugh-linked Stephen Smith is now considered a murder, South Carolina authorities revealed — ahead of the planned exhumation of the gay teen’s body.

The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) had been waiting to drop the bombshell development until after the Alex Murdaugh double murder trial wrapped up and the ensuing drama quieted down, Bland Richter Law Firm announced Tuesday.

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