No jail for former B.C. official over bank fraud
Last Updated: Friday, March 9, 2007 | 8:57 AM PT
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A former senior provincial government adviser with close ties to the B.C. Liberals has been handed a conditional sentence after pleading guilty to bank fraud.
Doug Walls had been charged in connection with the collapse of his family's car dealership in Prince George in 1998.
Doug Walls, shown in an undated photo, admitted he defrauded a bank of more than $5,000 in a scheme that included writing bad cheques.
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He admitted he defrauded the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce of more than $5,000 in a scheme that included writing bad cheques.
Premier Gordon Campbell's Liberal government later hired Walls to revamp B.C.'s interim Community Living Authority.
Walls and his associate, Mike Millard, were handed conditional sentences of two years less a day in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver on Thursday.
He won't serve any jail time, but will have to report to a conditional sentencing supervisor.
Walls, a former Liberal riding association president, is related by marriage to the premier, and was once a close family friend of Education Minister Shirley Bond.
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