Gilles Vaillancourt elects trial by judge and jury
Gilles Vaillancourt is facing 12 charges including conspiracy, fraud, breach of trust and gangsterism.
www.cbc.caI can’t browse the latest news right now. Based on the most recent widely reported information up to 2024-2025, Gilles Vaillancourt, the former mayor of Laval, Quebec, was involved in corruption prosecutions and pleaded guilty in December 2016 to fraud, breach of trust, and related charges, receiving a six-year prison sentence as part of a plea deal. He had been a central figure in Laval’s long-running corruption investigations tied to the Charbonneau inquiry, and his case was a high-profile example of Quebec municipal corruption cases from that era. If you’d like, I can summarize the key developments from the major outlets you’re most interested in (CBC, Global News, Montreal Gazette, etc.) or look for more recent items if you provide permission to search.
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