Bribe-taking federal bridge official gets day parole, with a catch

A former head of the corporation that maintains the Jacques Cartier and Champlain bridges who accepted bribes from SNC-Lavalin has been given the option of doing charity work in an effort to teach him humility when he is released on day parole.
Fournier, 66, was sentenced last summer to a 66-month prison term after he pleaded guilty to having accepted bribes while he was a public official working in Montreal for the federal government. He also pleaded guilty to laundering the $2.3 million he acc