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In Michel Fournier’s case, crime really did not pay.

The former head of the corporation that maintains the Jacques Cartier and Champlain bridges pleaded guilty to accepting more than $2.3 million in bribes from SNC-Lavalin, the Montreal-based engineering firm, between 2001 and 2003. He was left with nothing to show for his crimes, besides a 66-month prison sentence.

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Fournier, 65, a current resident of Victoria, B.C., pleaded guilty on Thursday to accepting bribes while he was a public official working in Montreal for the federal government and to laundering the money from those bribes between 2001 and 2009. According to a statement of facts read into the court record at the Montreal courthouse, Fournier went to great lengths to hide where the $2.3 million came from. But he lost $1.5 million through risky investments, and the federal government is now able to confiscate more than $775,000 seized during an RCMP investigation in 2016. From 1997 to 2004, Fournier was the president and director general of Federal Bridge Corp. and president of Jacques Cartier and Champlain Bridges Inc.