MONTREAL – A Quebec woman has pleaded guilty to two counts of laundering the proceeds of crime and has been sentenced to 33 months for her role in an alleged bribery scandal connected to a superhospital project.
With time already served, Pamela Porter has two years less a day to go in a sentence that was agreed to by the Crown and defence.
She was also put on one year’s probation.
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A lawyer with the Quebec government says the court also seized about 5.5 million dollars worth of assets related to her crimes.
One of the charges against her was related to helping launder money from an alleged fraud of 22.5 million dollars in the 1.3-billion superhospital project in Montreal.
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The other charge involved allegations she used some of that money to secure her bail in 2013.
The 54-year-old woman is one of several people charged in the fraud and bribery case related to the superhospital contract.
The names of the other accused are under a publication ban that was imposed at her hearing this afternoon.
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