Defence at Contrecoeur trial blames 'media storm' for UPAC probe

There may have been an “accumulation of irregularities,” but there was no fraud in the sale of the city-owned Faubourg Contrecoeur, a lawyer representing Frank Zampino, the former no. 2 politician at Montreal city hall, said in closing arguments at his trial on Friday.
Zampino’s lawyer, Isabel Schurman, and Pierre L’Écuyer, who is defending co-accused businessman  Paolo Catania and who also presented final arguments, maintained that the investigation by Quebec