NDP fraud controversy ends with fine
CBC News
Posted: Feb 14, 2012 8:04 PM CST
Last Updated: Feb 14, 2012 8:03 PM CST
A man who forged NDP membership applications during the 2009 leadership race is being fined $3,000.
Ernest Morin signed up about 1,100 people from the Waterhen Lake and Flying Dust First Nations, located near Meadow Lake, for party memberships without their knowledge or consent.
Morin, who was a volunteer campaigner for NDP leadership candidate Dwain Lingenfelter, pleaded guilty Tuesday to attempting to utter forged documents.
He was charged after the RCMP received complaints of the forged memberships.
At the time, Lingenfelter said there was no malicious intent in Morin's actions.
"The way it happens is an over exuberant sales person, one of my canvassers, one of our volunteers, in doing his job, went forward and signed up people from the band list who hadn't been interviewed," Lingenfelter said.
The NDP does allow for someone to buy a membership for someone else, if the person who wants the membership can't afford it.
However, under the rules, the member has to sign the membership. In this case, it was Morin who signed the memberships. He was sentenced Tuesday to pay a $3,000 fine.
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