Thursday July 24 2014
The
Leader
▲ Surrey and Delta athletes haul home the medals from the B.C. Summer Games 21
OUTPOURING FOR KAUREEN ▶ COMMUNITY RALLIES AROUND WOMAN WHO LOST BOTH HER LEGS AFTER BEING HIT WHILE WAITING FOR A BUS IN GUILDFORD KEVIN DIAKIW
On a sunny morning a month-and-a-half ago, Kaureen Lamy was waiting at the bus stop on 88 Avenue and 148 Street, on the way to her dream job. Lamy, 35, was enamoured with dogs and had attended school to learn the techniques required for her dog grooming job at Uptown Dawg in Port Moody, where she had
worked for just two months. Fate was about to deal Lamy an unthinkable blow. Just before 8 a.m. on Monday, June 30, a Toyota Tacoma pick-up truck, which witnesses said ran a red light, careened off of a van and rocketed into the bus stop where Lamy was sitting. She lost both her legs and suffered extensive organ damage and broken ribs on impact. Kaureen Lamy continued on page 4
$100M PONZI SCHEME SNARED 200 VICTIMS
▶ THOSE SCAMMED IN SURREY HAD INVESTED $50,OOO TO $1.1 MILLION EACH JEFF NAGEL
A former notary public who bilked scores of Metro Vancouver investors out of more than $100 million has been found by securities regulators to have run a Ponzi scheme. Vancouver-based Rashida Samji committed a fraud under the B.C. Securities Act on more than 200 investors between 2003 and 2012, a B.C. Securities Commission (BCSC) panel ruled. Surrey lawyer Scott Nicoll, who acted on behalf of 51 victims from Surrey and Richmond, is not surprised by the finding. “It was pretty apparent it was a fraud from the outset,” he said. Samji claimed she was offering a secure investment guaranteed to pay 12 per cent a year. Invested cash would go into a trust account that would secure borrowing by a B.C. winery so it could expand internationally. continued on page 3
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A FUSION OF CULTURE Lisa Monchalin dances in a powwow at the seventh-annual Surrey Fusion Festival at Holland Park on July 20. About 100,000 people attended this year’s event. Monchalin, who recently moved from Ontario to Surrey, is of Algonquin, Huron and Metis background, and is the first aboriginal woman in Canada to earn a PhD in criminology. BOAZ JOSEPH
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