QUEBEC CITY – Former Quebec lieutenant-governor Lise Thibault has been given an 18-month jail term and ordered to reimburse a total of $300,000 to Ottawa and Quebec after pleading guilty to fraud and breach of trust charges.
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Thibault, 76, was charged after a 2007 report by the federal and provincial auditors general revealed she claimed more than $700,000 in improper expenses when she held the vice-regal post between 1997 and 2007.
Her trial heard the money was spent on gifts, trips, parties, meals and skiing and golf lessons.
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The Crown was seeking a four-year prison term and the reimbursement of $430,000.
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Her lawyer said last May the maximum the wheelchair-bound Thibault should pay back is $372,000 and that $272,000 should come from money left in her foundation, which helps the disabled.
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