Quebec’s financial regulator has lowered the boom on a former evangelical pastor turned investment advisor who is alleged to have sold illegal investments to members of his church congregation.The Autorité des marchés financiers has received 73 complaints against advisor Rocco Di Stefano, many of them from members of the Fabre Street Pentecostal Church in Montreal. […]
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Former Norbourg CEO Vincent Lacroix was found guilty of 51 fraud charges in Montreal today.Quebec provincial court Judge Claude Leblond handed down the verdict.Lacroix, the founder of the Montreal-based investment fund, was arrested in 2006 and charged with 51 counts of violating securities laws after his company was investigated by Quebec’s financial market regulator, the […]
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