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Peter Nygard s lawyers will be back in court Thursday in a renewed attempt to get him out of jail.
Peter Nygard s lawyers will be back in court Thursday in a renewed attempt to get him out of jail.
The fallen fashion mogul has been in custody since Dec. 14, when he was arrested by Canadian authorities at the behest of U.S. law enforcement.
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Peter Nygard, seen here in 2016, is fighting extradition to the United States, where he faces racketeering and sex trafficking charges.
Nygard is facing a slew of racketeering and sex trafficking charges in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. U.S. authorities are trying to extradite him to New York to stand trial.
WINNIPEG Peter Nygard is making another bid for bail with a revised plan that would beef up the monitoring of all his communications in response to a judge s concerns of witness tampering if he were released. The former fashion mogul was denied bail on Feb. 5, 2021, leaving him behind bars at the Headingley Correctional Centre while he awaits an extradition hearing. At the time, Queen’s Bench Justice Shawn Greenberg said she was satisfied that Nygard was a flight risk, and had concerns about witness tampering if Nygard were to be released. In response to Nygard s lawyers arguments that he – as a 79-year-old man with pre-existing medical conditions – was at an increased risk of COVID-19 within the jail, Greenberg said the pandemic is only one factor and should not be treated as a get-out-of-jail-free card.
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