ON - “Lottery scandal claims two execs”
Lee Greenberg, CanWest News Service, Wednesday, June 13, 2007, Windsor Star
TORONTO - One senior executive was fired and another stripped of his title Tuesday as the fallout from a scandal involving
allegations of fraud and suspicious insider wins at Ontario’s lottery corporation widened.
Michelle DiEmanuele, Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation’s interim chief executive, announced the changes Tuesday afternoon.
Ingrid Peters, the OLG’s vice- president, general counsel, legal and compliance, was fired after eight years with the company. She earned more than $267,000 in 2006, according to documents of the province’s top public sector earners.
“On behalf of the Corporation, I would like to thank Ingrid for her years of service with OLG,” DiEmanuele writes in the terse, four-paragraph note.
In another move, Walter Fioravanti was removed from his position as vice-president of human resources but will remain with the company. He earned approximately $251,000 in 2006, according to public documents.
Insiders say the shuffle — which brings to four the number of executive casualties stemming from the scandal — was in the works for weeks.
Peters and Fioravanti join Duncan Brown, the company’s former chief executive officer, and Alan Berdowski, the company’s former chief marketing officer, as casualties of a scandal exposing rampant incompetence at the provincial lottery corporation.
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