Following a court battle with the City of Pembroke, one resident is joining others with “serious” concerns about Mayor Ron Gervais, suggesting the mayor worked as a lawyer on the taxpayers’ dime while serving as an elected official last year.
Some residents recently told CBC News they had concerns about perceived and possible financial conflicts of interest involving Gervais’s ties to his place of employment, Sheppard & Gervais — the firm hired by the city to carry out the city solicitor job, headed by Robert Sheppard.
The solicitor contract began in 2002 and councilors are now looking at considering that…
For most people, being implicated in a crime would represent the scandal of a lifetime. Especially if it’s connected to the unprecedented arrest of a former US president.
For Donald Trump, this wasn’t even the scandal of the weekend.
The trail leading to Tuesday’s history-making indictment began on the gob-smackingly eventful second weekend of October 2016.
His presidential campaign was updated by an old video in which he crudely joked about grabbing women’s genitals.
That same day, WikiLeaks begin releasing hacked emails from the Clinton campaign, in a chain of events that led to Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
That’s when…
Some of the problems that commonly arise relating to finances upon separation include:Hiding of assets
Bank accounts being drained
Selling off property
Bills not being paid (eg mortgages, loans, credit cards)
Lack of access to financial resources; or
Lack of knowledge about current financial positionWhen it comes time to finalize how you are going to divide your assets (referred to as a financial or property settlement), it is what is remaining that is shared. So, if money is moved, spent or wasted, what is left over is what can be divided in that settlement. There is no opportunity…