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The owner of Dorval’s Résidence Herron got his start in the elder care business in 1987 when he built a facility in Gatineau. In 1994, the Résidence de l’Île became the target of an RCMP investigation into money laundering, but no charges were filed in the case.

The Résidence Herron, a long-term care facility where 31 seniors have died since the end of March, is under investigation by Montreal police amid allegations of negligence in how it responded to the coronavirus crisis.

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The Gatineau facility was also the subject of three reports released last year filed by two Quebec coroners. The coroners probed the deaths of three patients between the ages of 82 and 98. Two of the patients arrived at a hospital severely malnourished, while the other died after staff at the residence failed for hours to notice that her oxygen mask had fallen off her face.

In one case, a coroner noted it took three months for the Résidence de l’Île to supply the deceased’s records.