Accurso again arrested for driving while intoxicated

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Tony Accurso

Accused

Claudia Berthiaume

Friday, 28 July, 2017 00:01

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Already awaiting trial for driving while intoxicated, the construction entrepreneur Tony Accurso was again arrested for the same reason, in the same place.

The most recent interception of the businessman cited at the Charbonneau commission dates back to the 15th of may last, Two-Mountains, learned The Newspaper.

According to the data available to the municipal court, Mr. Accurso was arrested near his residence, at around 23: 40. It has not been possible to have more details, yesterday.

Reached by telephone, the lawyer of Tony Accurso, Jean Cordeau, preferred not to comment on it.

In 2011, the entrepreneur, the 65-year-old was intercepted on the street by the police of Two-Mountains for the same reason. Tony Accurso is still awaiting his trial in this case.

Set-up

He tried in vain to drop the legal proceedings against him, there is a year and a half. Tony Accurso was convinced that his arrest was a set-up.

At this time, the sexagenarian was already in the headlines, due to several elected officials and public servants who stayed on his sumptuous yacht.

“You had nothing better to do. It is a set-up. Your boss has told you of me watch, ” he had said in English to the police who had arrested in 2011.

The business man had been arrested following a 911 call made by a motorist who was in a vehicle brand Lexus was driving erratically on highway 640.

The car was registered in the name of the company, Simard-Beaudry, owned then Tony Accurso.

Often the court

Judge Andrew Hood has, however, ruled that the arrest of Mr. Accurso was completely legal and that he was to stand trial in September next.

It will be yet another transition on the court for the contractor, which was before the court, yesterday, in Laval, in the fraud where he is a co-accused of ex-mayor Gilles Vaillancourt.

Tony Accurso will also be present at the courthouse in Joliette in August, on the draft Gravel, for which he was accused of corruption in municipal affairs with the ex-mayor of Mascouche, Richard Marcotte, 2012.

– With the collaboration of Jean-Louis Fortin