NB Justice Drew Stymiest found guilty

Source: very late at night television news Feb. 8, 06 -- you'll have to check further for I switch from channel to channel and forget which one broadcast this. Below is what I found in a quick search online. Is it possible there is no discussion of this quite momentous aberration in the court system? If a judge falls in a NB forest and there is little media noise, did it happen?

Judge's fraud trial study in contrasts -- N.B. jurist aided toddlers, elderly -- But it's alleged he defrauded hospital Kelly Toughill, Dec. 19, 2005

According to those Halifax prosecutors, Stymiest, 56, is also a crook. They allege he set up shell corporations to defraud the hospital, that he took kickbacks, that he double-billed his expenses, that he faked invoices. In short, that he regularly pocketed money meant to help heal the sick and comfort the dying in the river towns of Miramichi.

Stymiest and three hospital employees have been charged with 40 counts of fraud and breach of trust. Stymiest alone faces 20 criminal counts.

The other defendants, hospital CEO John Tucker, vice-president of finance Ian Jamieson and hospital accountant Darrell Doucette, have also been accused of pocketing bonuses that were supposed to lure badly needed new doctors to the region, and keeping rebates on hospital equipment. [....]

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he gave about $50,000 in cash to two unnamed men from Toronto and Montreal without getting a receipt.
CEO John Tucker $120,000 in bonuses
vice president of finance, Ian Jamieson
forensic accountant testified
the RENT account
appointed the first chair of the Region 7 Hospital Corporation
Frank McKenna [Was the justice appointed by him?]

New Brunswick Judge, Drew Stymiest, On Trial In Massive Fraud

[. . . . ] A jury of seven men and five women have sat through three months of testimony in the case, listening to secretaries and businessmen, physicians and forensic accountants. They have heard about safety deposit boxes full of cash, cash paid to secretaries of consulting companies, cash paid to anonymous "fellas" from Toronto and Montreal, and bonuses paid to physicians who never got them. [. . . . ]

when Premier Frank McKenna decided to set up regional health boards. Stymiest was appointed the first chair of the Region 7 Hospital Corporation [. . . . ]

Unavailable on the Canada.com website when I looked but it might be in a newspaper at a library

MIRAMICHI, NB -- A much-anticipated trial is expected to begin soon in New Brunswick
... Judge Drew Stymiest, John Tucker, Ian Jamison and Darrell Doucette. ...
www.canada.com/national/story. html?id=7d173ac9-8379-4c36-92ae-0f82050215ce