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"Former Detroit Mayors Bermuda trip features in grand jury indictment"

A visit to Bermuda by former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has become the subject of a grand jury indictment over alleged misuse of pension funds. US real estate firm MayfieldGentry Realty Advisors LLC has been accused of giving the mayor $174,000 i...

May 07, 2012

Court

Second W&E supervisor admits authorising payments

A second Government employee who worked with fraud-accused Kyril Burrows admitted to Supreme Court that he authorised payments for him without reading the documents. Greatfield Carmichael, 62, was originally charged alongside Mr Burrows. The charges ...

Apr 24, 2012

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"Pair get trial date on dishonesty charge"

Two men were charged in Magistrates’ Court with dishonestly receiving money from a customer service agent at Butterfield Bank. Jahroy Simons, 26, of Southampton and Phillip Johnson, 29 of Pembroke, both denied one count of obtaining $8,000 on April 1...

Apr 24, 2012

Court

"Many invoices written on the same day raised concern, court hears"

Works and Engineering manager Kyril Burrows authorised multiple payments to the same contractor on the same dates for the same jobs, for amounts that were always less than $3,000, Supreme Court heard. The evidence came from Stephen Tucker, the buildi...

Apr 20, 2012

Court

"Invoice for bedroom renovations at depot sparks laughter in court"

During the evidence of defendant-turned-prosecution-witness Calvin Waldron [see main story], prosecutor Susan Mulligan took him through sheaves of documents. All had his signature on them and are alleged to have been part of the fraud that defendant ...

Apr 19, 2012

Court

"Supervisor didn’t check what payments were for, fraud trial hears"

Kyril Burrows’s supervisor at the time of his alleged fraud against Government admitted authorising payments submitted by Mr Burrows without reading the documents. Calvin Waldron, 43, agreed for the money to come out of Government’s coffers without ...

Apr 19, 2012

Court

"Supervisor would not have authorised purchase of plasma TV, fraud trial hears"

Kyril Burrows never asked his supervisor to sign off on payments for a $4,640 plasma screen TV that he allegedly purchased with taxpayers’ money, Supreme Court heard. The supervisor told Mr Burrows’s fraud trial he would not have authorised the payme...

Apr 18, 2012

Court

"No reason to believe home computer was fiddled, fraud trial hears"

A computer forensics expert dismissed suggestions from accused fraudsters that e-mails and invoices apparently created on their home computer were “fiddled” with by police investigators. Paul Weall, a British expert, examined data from computers duri...

Apr 17, 2012

Court

"Computer forensics expert testifies at fraud trial"

A British computer forensics expert found e-mails and invoices that appeared to have been created on the home computer of fraud-accused Kyril Burrows, a jury heard. Paul Weall, who assisted Bermuda Police as a consultant, examined data from computers...

Apr 16, 2012

Court

Clerk alerted W&E hierarchy about suspicious documents found in storage

A Works and Engineering clerk told a jury she raised concerns over Kyril Burrows, the man accused of perpetrating a $553,000 fraud against Government along with his wife. Mikia McGowan said she found suspicious documents relating to a television bein...

Apr 13, 2012

Court

"Handwriting expert testifies in fraud trial"

A handwriting expert told a jury there is “very strong evidence” that signatures on payment certificates at the heart of a fraud trial were penned by the accused man. Kyril Burrows, a former buildings supervisor at the Ministry of Works and Engineeri...

Apr 12, 2012

Court

"Government accountant presents audit report of couples transactions"

A Government accountant showed a jury dozens of documents that prosecutors say illustrate the fraud a couple committed against Government. Kyril Burrows, a former Buildings Manager at the Ministry of Works and Engineering and his wife, Delcina Bean B...

Apr 10, 2012

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"Former Detroit Mayors Bermuda trip features in grand jury indictment"

Second W&E supervisor admits authorising payments

"Pair get trial date on dishonesty charge"

"Many invoices written on the same day raised concern, court hears"

"Invoice for bedroom renovations at depot sparks laughter in court"

"Supervisor didn’t check what payments were for, fraud trial hears"

"Supervisor would not have authorised purchase of plasma TV, fraud trial hears"

"No reason to believe home computer was fiddled, fraud trial hears"

"Computer forensics expert testifies at fraud trial"

Clerk alerted W&E hierarchy about suspicious documents found in storage

"Handwriting expert testifies in fraud trial"

"Government accountant presents audit report of couples transactions"

"Former Detroit Mayors Bermuda trip features in grand jury indictment"

"No reason to believe home computer was fiddled, fraud trial hears"

"Government accountant presents audit report of couples transactions"