Ottawa charity director charged with $1M fraud

Fri Jul 2, 2010

CBC News

Ottawa police have charged a 46-year-old Ottawa woman with defrauding a provincially funded charity of more than $1 million over a period of nine years.

Yolanda Knight was arrested Thursday and was scheduled to appear in court Friday, charged with fraud, breach of trust, theft, uttering a forged document and possession of the proceeds of crime.

Knight was the financial director for an agency that takes care of disabled adults.

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