A former University of Manitoba law dean has been given “the ultimate penalty” of disbarment in Manitoba after he misspent over half a million dollars in school funds, including racking up charges that amount to fraud, the provincial law society says.
Jonathan Black-Branch has been disbarred and his name has been removed from the Law Society of Manitoba’s rolls of barristers and solicitors, according to a Feb. 14 decision from a law society disciplinary committee.
He also was fined $36,000.
He’ll now run as an MP for the Liberal party of Canada.
He should fit right in.
Beat me to it!
I wonder if he’s donated to the Liberal party?
Was he forced to pay back the “half a million dollars”?
The turk who wrote this expose on Mr. Black-Branch doesn’t seem to like him very much.
Is Mr. Black-Branch jewish? There doesn’t seem to be too much online about his past
Imagine if the CBC wrote about the #Libranos like this! They’d never get their bonus’ …
Only 500K?
Amateur!
This is Canada!
I know, eh?
Bet he now wishes he’d gone into ArriveScamming instead of law. Bloody amateur.
Justin Trudeau may appoint him as a judge.
He’s eminently qualified to oversee judicial proceedings (exonerations) of Liberals.
Sarc
But probability happening is high
Lawyer math? How about Lawyer LANGUAGE!? He “misspent” $500k? “misspent”? Try “embezzled” or “stolen” … “theft” …
I guess it’s hard to define what is … is … when it’s contained in the word misspent
The surprise is that The Law Society of Manitoba took any action at all, foxes looking after the hen house etc.
Is there a separate charge from the Crown ? One only hopes CRA will rattle his dumb ass for the next 36 months and how about his lunch mates getting questioned over a lunch lol.
Another good line is that his peers were surprised ? The guys rolling around on what appears to be a $10 K a month ” expense ” account like the Duke of Moose Jaw .
Should spend time in Stony Mtn for his double duplicity of the law and public funds in trust but wont.
Well, I found his resume, and he did get around a lot internationally, after Manitoba, New Brunswick and Toronto etc. Childhood unknown ….
https://sencanada.ca/content/sen/committee/431/CONF/reports/CONF_ThirdReport_Appendix_a.pdf
His reputation is somewhat in shambles, but he quickly escaped to the UK, and will be barely punished for his crimes. He is now about 60, and likely has a job, lots of stashed cash (off-shore and elsewhere), book sales, companies and likely pensions from both Canada and the UK.
Was he an understudy of Maurice Strong, a fellow Manitoban with English roots, who also liked the energy industry and had the same slick ego and slimy ethical frame-of-mind? Did they hang out at the Manitoba Club?
https://fipa.bc.ca/stop-asking-questions-pay-the-bill/
Discovered in 2020 but the CBC reports it 4 years later, that’s not news it’s a cover-up. U of M initially chose not to pursue legal action (stealing tax-payers dollars) and reimbursed the money themselves (stealing more tax-payer dollars?) so they’re not even attempting to get the money back. Seems the U of M didn’t want to upset Jonathan for some reason.