Crown seeks 10 years for former executives behind Knowledge House collapse
HALIFAX — Federal Crown prosecutors argued on Tuesday that two of Nova Scotia’s most notorious white-collar criminals should be sentenced to 10 to 12 years in prison, prompting a judge to ask: “Where’s the body?”
Nearly 17 years after the dramatic collapse of Halifax educational software company Knowledge House, lawyers put forward sentencing recommendations for two architects of the sophisticated multi-million-dollar stock market scheme.
Mark Covan, one of three Crown attorneys handling the criminal trial, admitted that up to a dozen years in prison is a “harsh and significant” sentence. But he said it’s justified given the gravity of the offence.
“A sentence that doesn’t recognize that someone has used their office, their education and their training to commit crime is an affront to the administration of justice,” Covan told the court.