Accurso asks for release while he appeals Laval corruption conviction

Construction entrepreneur Antonio Accurso has filed a request to be released from a penitentiary while he appeals his conviction and the sentence he received on Thursday for his role in Laval’s municipal corruption.
Accurso, 66, received a four-year prison term for taking part in the system of collusion created by former Laval mayor Gilles Vaillancourt through which contracts were awarded, between 1996 and 2010, to dozens of companies before they were put to tender. Accurso’s lawyer,