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ACTUALLY USEFUL TRAIN SERVICE WOULD BE A BOON
Todd Cowan found guilty of breach of trust
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ST. JACOBS SILOS GET A REFRESH
Former mayor acquitted of fraud charge as case wraps up in Kitchener courtroom; sentencing set for July 18
reimbursement for meals, mileage, and conferences he attended between 2012 and FORMER WOOLWICH 2014. MAYOR TODD Cowan was He was doubly reimconvicted of breach of trust bursed for more than $2,700, Wednesday morning in a which he paid back after the Kitchener courtroom. issue came to light, Justice Michael claiming it was his Epstein found own accounting him not guilty of error. fraud in relation When handing to expense claims out his verdict on submitted when Wednesday, Ephe was a public stein said he found official. that the number Cowan faces of instances where sentencing for the Todd Cowan [FILE PHOTO] Cowan was doubly breach of trust reimbursed to be charge on July 18. relatively small compared Cowan was charged with to the hundreds he had fraud and breach of trust on submitted, totaling about Feb. 6 of last year after an in$10,000 from the township vestigation from the Ontario and $14,000 from the region. Provincial Police Anti-RackEpstein said he was “far ets Branch unveiled that from satisfied” that Cowan Cowan had submitted the same expenses twice, to both had intentionally committhe township and the Region ted fraud and found him not guilty. He also noted that of Waterloo. He served as comments made by Cowan Woolwich’s representative when presented with the on regional council. Epstein noted they COWAN | 2 found 14 cases of double
WHITNEY NEILSON
The silos in St. Jacobs got a facelift this week from Randy Boisvenue who spent the better part of three days high in the sky repainting the old Snider sign.
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