Had two houses but found not guilty of defrauding BC welfare. (Income Security).VICTORIA -- Income assistance recipient Darlene Lake is not guilty of defrauding the province of almost $34,000, a B.C. Supreme Court jury decided. The Crown claimed that Lake intentionally in·ten·tion·al adj. 1. Done deliberately; intended: an intentional slight. See Synonyms at voluntary. 2. Having to do with intention. defrauded the province of welfare money between Nov. 1996, and May 2001. The charge was that she lied to the Human Resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. Ministry about ownership of two Victoria residences in order to collect income assistance benefits. When one of the residences was sold, Lake bought a $10,000 GIC GIC See: Guaranteed Investment Contract GIC See guaranteed investment contract (GIC). , again without informing the ministry. She explained that she bought the first residence with her mother's money and that her mother, who lived in Ontario, intended to move there on retirement. She was renting the residence from her mother, she said. The first home was sold and Lake purchased the GIC because her mother wanted the grandson Grandson (gräNsôN`), Ger. Grandsee, town (1990 pop. 2,473), Vaud canton, W Switzerland, at the southwestern end of the Lake of Neuchâtel. to have an education fund, Lake testified. The jury accepted Lake's explanation that she did not intend to defraud To make a Misrepresentation of an existing material fact, knowing it to be false or making it recklessly without regard to whether it is true or false, intending for someone to rely on the misrepresentation and under circumstances in which such person does rely on it to his or the government of $33,656.84 in welfare money. |
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