MMA and former employees plead guilty, fined $1.25 million in Lac-Mégantic case

The bankrupt railway at the centre of the Lac-Mégantic train explosion and several of its former employees have settled with the federal government and were ordered to pay fines totalling $1.25 million.

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Montreal Maine and Atlantic (MMA) Railway pleaded guilty and was ordered Monday to pay $1 million for violating the Fisheries Act.

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Six ex-MMA employees pleaded guilty to violating the Railway Safety Act and five of them were ordered to pay $50,000 each.

Ex-train engineer Thomas Harding was given conditional sentence of six months in prison, which will be served in the community.

WATCH BELOW: Lac-Mégantic trial

Richard Labrie calls Lac-Megantic trial’s final day ‘a roller coaster’

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Richard Labrie calls Lac-Megantic trial’s final day ‘a roller coaster’

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Tom Harding ‘too moved’ by Lac-Megantic verdict to talk with reporters, but ‘terribly relieved’: lawyer

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Father of Lac-Megantic victim happy with not guilty verdict

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Richard Labrie says he feels ‘relief’ after Lac-Megantic verdict

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Tom Harding walks away from reporters after Lac-Megantic verdict

The charges against MMA and its former employees were brought by the Public Prosecution Service of Canada.

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They were separate from the charge of criminal negligence causing death that Harding and two other ex-MMA employees were acquitted for in January in Quebec Superior Court.

A runaway MMA train derailed and exploded in Lac-Mégantic on July 6, 2013, killing 47 people and destroying part of the town’s downtown core.