How a convicted fraudster ended up at the centre of Ontario Conservatives' nomination controversies
Snover Dhillon hired himself out to would-be Conservative candidates to sign up members who could vote for them, but the elections often ended in chaos
Over the last seven years, the Ontario legal system has kept Snover Dhillon busy.
The Toronto-area businessman was convicted of fraud in two different jurisdictions during a single month of 2011, one prosecution netting him a 41-day jail term. Among his crimes, Dhillon passed himself off as a credit counselor, then siphoned $10,000 from his clients’ accounts using their own debit cards and ATMs. Regulatory agencies have twice fined him for acting as a real estate or mortgage broker without a licence, and have warned the public to steer clear of his business.
But in the backrooms of the Ontario Progressive Conservative party, Dhillon was until recently a sought-after commodity — and an intriguing face of the problems the party’s new bosses have vowed to eradicate.
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