Jury finds Quebec construction mogul Tony Accurso guilty of fraud, other charges
LAVAL, Que. — A jury has found Quebec construction magnate Tony Accurso guilty on all five charges he was facing including fraud and corruption.
Accurso, 66, was impassive as the jury delivered the verdicts on their seventh day of deliberations on Monday.
He was on trial in connection with a municipal corruption scheme involving former Laval mayor Gilles Vaillancourt.
The Crown had argued that Accurso participated in a kickback scheme on construction contracts doled out in that city.