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Over the last seven years, the Ontario legal system has kept Snover Dhillon busy.

The Toronto-area businessman was convicted of fraud in two different jurisdictions during a single month of 2011, one prosecution netting him a 41-day jail term. Among his crimes, Dhillon passed himself off as a credit counselor, then siphoned $10,000 from his clients’ accounts using their own debit cards and ATMs. Regulatory agencies have twice fined him for acting as a real estate or mortgage broker without a licence, and have warned the public to steer clear of his business.

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But in the backrooms of the Ontario Progressive Conservative party, Dhillon was until recently a sought-after commodity — and an intriguing face of the problems the party’s new bosses have vowed to eradicate.

In a Facebook post late last month, Dhillon announced he was quitting the party and the board of the Oakville-North Burlington riding association — in protest, he said, over how what he called the “coup crew” had toppled former leader Patrick Brown and canceled the nominations of the ex-leader’s “supporting candidates.”