Louise Léger-Villandré pleads guilty to 6 charges, including fraud
Ex-Hudson city manager arrested last year by UPAC investigators
Louise Léger-Villandré, the former director general of the town of Hudson, has pleaded guilty to six criminal charges including fraud, breach of trust and use of forged documents.
Léger-Villandré was arrested by UPAC investigators in October 2014 and faced a total of 19 charges connected to a series of events that took place between 1997 and 2013.
She was accused of fraudulently depositing, over 16 years, more than $1.1 million in municipal cheques into a personal bank account.
In a separate matter, Léger-Villandré had a sizable amount of assets seized by Revenue Quebec last April after allegedly lying on her business's tax returns and then trying to sell off some of her belongings.
Revenue Quebec estimated that Léger-Villandré owed more than $307,000 in unpaid taxes between 2008 and 2012.
Léger-Villandré will be back at the Valleyfield courthouse on Feb. 22 for sentencing.