In the end, the brothers were awarded a defamation settlement of $860,000 from Johnson and White, but not before the patriarch of the family, Jean Ivan, died without resolution.

The sisters not only dropped their case, but paid 50 per cent of the brothers’ legal fees, totalling more than $1 million.

Although no other victims, including those in York Region, wanted to speak, Colette Gounin decided to go on record in a bid to pay tribute to another victim, former Ontario Liberal MPP Eric Cunningham.

“I am inspired by Eric Cunningham, who died trying to find justice. I have to speak on his behalf; I feel really strong about that,” she said.

Cunningham died in his sleep in late 2014, soon after telling his friend and associate, private investigator Derrick Snowdy, that the stress from the ongoing lawsuit relating to Johnson and White’s alleged frauds was going to kill him.

It was in 2007 that Cunningham's ex-wife Joan Montgomery claimed during divorce proceedings that he was hiding $2.3 million in offshore accounts.

She would later “reluctantly acknowledge that she may have been conned.”

“Johnson and White picked their victims because they were already victims, they re-victimized people, which is what made it so insidious,” Snowdy said. “They picked their victims with premeditated calculation.”

How Johnson and White ended up in American prisons is a story unto itself.

It was in 2009 that the OPP charged the pair with five counts of fraud related to Canadian incidents.

However, after both investigators and Crown lawyers neglected to confiscate the duo’s passports, they fled to the Caribbean in December 2009, eventually landing in Turks and Caicos, where they were accused of targeting Americans.

They were extradited to the U.S. and pleaded guilty to money laundering in a $1 million scheme. Johnson turned on White, receiving a reduced sentence. He didn’t make it out alive, dying just weeks before his scheduled release date.

Despite waiting for years to see justice done in Canada, Snowdy may never see that day.

Newmarket Crown attorney Harold Dale says that White has served her time and, while he does expect her to be arrested her arrival in Canada, doesn’t expect much more than a fail-to-appear charge.

“She spent six or seven years (in jail in the United States),” he said, explaining that’s about the same time she would have served if convicted in Canada.

Snowdy sees this as a mistake.

"If the Canadian authorities had done their jobs, no one in America would have been victimized," he said. "The way it is now, she will have no criminal record in Canada, she can go right back on the street and do the same thing. She's a recidivist criminal without remorse."