BC - Lottery reseller hit with record fine
Source: Industry Canada
Published Date: Dec 13, 2006
Description:
The Competition Bureau announced today that Tom Taylor, 60, of White Rock, B.C., was ordered to pay a record fine of $225,000 and perform 100 hours of community service for offences under the lottery and gaming provisions of the Criminal Code of Canada. Taylor’s offences relate to direct mail lottery schemes that brought in $47 million under the names Canadian Lottery Buyers Association (CLBA); International Monetary Funding (IMF); International Lottery Commission (ILC) and Transworld Lottery Commission (TLC). The lottery schemes were mailed to residents of the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand from 1995 to 2002.
[This is a paltry amount considering how much was bilked from buyers].
