A former New Brunswick deputy attorney general was led out of a Moncton courtroom on Tuesday afternoon by sheriffs, headed to prison for three years after gambling away clients' money when he was in private practice.
Seven years after a former Fredericton lawyer fled the province after gambling away hundreds of thousands of dollars of his clients' money, he stood before a judge in Moncton apologizing.
Preliminary inquiry for disbarred lawyer accused of fraud pushed to 2022
A preliminary hearing scheduled for this month for a disbarred lawyer and former senior provincial government civil servant who is accused of fraud has been rescheduled for March 2022.
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Hearing originally set for this month will determine if there s enough evidence to proceed to trial
Posted: May 07, 2021 12:25 PM AT | Last Updated: May 7
Yassin Choukri, a former New Brunswick deputy attorney general now accused of fraud, outside the Moncton courthouse on Friday.(Shane Magee/CBC)
The preliminary inquiry for a disbarred lawyer and former senior provincial government civil servant accused of fraud has been delayed 10 months.