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Ahmad Abbas Rahman sat handcuffed in the prisoner’s box of a Newmarket, Ont., courtroom Wednesday afternoon with his head dropped low, a medical mask covering his face, listening to an Arabic interpreter as a judge sentenced him to nine years plus two and a half months in prison. Last month, …
Read More »Man sentenced after pleading guilty in Edmonton to luring, child pornography charges involving 92 victims
WARNING: This article contains disturbing content. After pleading guilty to sex crimes involving dozens of child victims, a 38-year-old man was sentenced to 18 years in prison by a judge in Edmonton on Thursday afternoon. He will receive 45 months of credit for time he has already served behind bars. …
Read More »Family physician sentenced to 4-year prison term for largest doctor billing fraud in Alberta history
An Edmonton family physician has been sentenced to four years in prison for a crime described as the largest billing fraud by a doctor in Alberta history. In 2016, Dr. Yifei Shi billed Alberta Health for a total of $1,388,862. According to an agreed statement of facts entered in Court of King’s …
Read More »Steve Bannon sentenced to 4 months in prison for defying subpoena from Jan. 6 committee
Steve Bannon, a former top strategist and campaign chair to Donald Trump, was sentenced Friday in U.S. federal court to four months in prison on contempt of Congress charges. Bannon refused to co-operate with the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol. He was convicted …
Read More »Former Hedley frontman Jacob Hoggard sentenced to 5 years in prison for sexual assault
WARNING: This article contains details of abuse. Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard was sentenced to five years in prison by a Toronto judge on Thursday. It was the third and final day of a sentencing hearing that began earlier this month. Hoggard, the former lead singer of rock band Hedley, was found …
Read More »Toronto van attacker sentenced to life in prison, no possibility of parole for 25 years
The man responsible for Toronto’s deadly van attack has been sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 25 years. Justice Anne Molloy handed down her sentence in Superior Court in Toronto Monday in a room full of victims, family, friends and community members whose lives were forever changed on April 23, …
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