Upper Vaughn fraud case

A financial manager who defrauded his clients out of more than a million dollars has been sentenced.

Quinton Sponagle of Upper Vaughn was ordered to pay his 200 victims $1.1 million.  Sponagle pleaded guilty in December to fraud by not investing their money and pocketing it himself.

Sponagle was sentenced to a year’s probation and time served in custody already.  That includes 19 months he spent in a prison in Panama while fighting extradition.  He was released on bail a month after being returned here in late 2014.

NS Grits boot a candidate

The Liberals have kicked a candidate off their team.

There’s been no comment from Matthew MacKnight who was running for the Liberals in Pictou East after the announcement from the party yesterday.  Campaign chair Chris MacInnes says highly inappropriate remarks on social media were brought to his attention yesterday which run contrary to the values of the party but wouldn’t say what they were.