Quebec's anti-corruption police announce the arrest of a retired municipal court judge for fraud.
According to police, Jean Herbert, who served on the municipal court in Longueuil, Quebec, located to the south of Montreal, fabricated records to overstate the time he spent presiding over cases.
They accused him of invoicing the City of Longueuil for over $38,000 for hours he didn't actually work between July 2016 and March 2019.
In 2022, Quebec’s judicial council, the Conseil de la magistrature, determined that the judge had overbilled the City of Longueuil 162 times, but did not penalize him because he had retired in 2019.
The council also uncovered that he had violated ethical rules by changing the date of a neighbor’s court appearance for a traffic ticket so he could handle the case — and acquit her — before retiring.
Herbert is set to appear in court on March 26.
