A serial scammer was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Monday for posing as a relative in order to be hired by Desjardins and also for defrauding the Culture Ministry with a false contract.
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After posing as Johanne Richer and Solane Greuier, it was in fact Solange Crevier who went to jail on Monday.
The 59-year-old woman was sentenced to 18 months in prison for fraud and using false documents on two separate counts.
In the first case, she admitted to forging her husband’s aunt’s driver’s license in order to be hired by a Desjardins staffing partner, Agilia Solutions.
The scam allowed the woman to work as a computer consultant at Desjardins for two years, which allowed her to bill $500,000 in honoraria and $19,000 in expenses.
Wrong contract
Then Solange Crevier managed to get hired at the Ministry of Culture and Communications through an information technology agency under the name Solane Greuier.
She will use this identity from September 2014 to January 2016, the time of two contracts, one of which was false, allowing Crevier to defraud the ministry of nearly $10,000.
In both cases, it was anonymous information that alerted the employees of the companies defrauded by the accused, leading to the termination of their employment and the initiation of investigations.
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According to Solange Crevier, this information came from journalists who would follow her case after she was found guilty of stealing computers from Bombardier in 2007. The woman was also sentenced to six months in prison for fraud at VIA Rail.
Faced with this treatment, “As long as Crevier must go” the accused had testified to justify their crimes.
sophistication and intent
In her ruling, Judge Annie Trudel held that the woman’s responsibility was complete and that the accumulation of her files “justified the extensive media coverage” she was being accorded.
The judge also rejected the defense’s suggestion that a community penalty be imposed, which he said was “wholly inadequate”.
According to Judge Trudel, the 18-month sentence imposed is based on the “high moral guilt” and the “complete responsibility” of the accused.
“In particular, given the scale of the fraudulent acts, their duration, their level of sophistication and premeditatedness, and their recurrence, the Court endorses the words of the probation officer, who states that Ms Crevier maintained her fraudulent plan while avoiding putting the repercussions in question that her behavior might have had an impact on the people she cheated on,” the judge explained.
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