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Place of Birth: Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
About Jean Filion
- Jean Filion (born March 22, 1951) is a Canadian former politician, who represented the electoral district of Montmorency in the National Assembly of Quebec from 1991 to 1998.
- He was a member of the Parti Québécois. He was the party's candidate in Montmorency in the 1985 provincial election, but lost to Yves Séguin of the Quebec Liberal Party.
- He was first elected in a by-election on August 12, 1991, following SĂ©guin's resignation, and was reelected in the 1994 election.
- He left the party to sit as an independent in 1995, and ran unsuccessfully for the mayoralty of Beauport in 1996.
- He ran as an independent candidate in the 1998 election, but was defeated by Jean-François Simard.He was later charged with thirteen counts of fraud and breach of trust, after allegations that he diverted funds from his MNA expense budget into renovations for a building he owned.
- He was convicted in 2004 on eight of the thirteen counts, and sentenced to six months in jail.
- He was subsequently stripped of his designation as a chartered accountant by the Quebec Order of Chartered Accountants.Due to his conviction, the National Assembly withheld a sizable "transition payment" that he would have been entitled to as an outgoing MNA.
- He filed a lawsuit against the provincial government in the Quebec Superior Court in 2012 for $52,617 in transition payments, $50,000 in moral damages and $42,000 to cover legal fees and expenses.
- In February 2013, Superior Court Justice Suzanne Hardy-Lemieux ruled that he was entitled to partial compensation of $29,699 for the transition payments, but rejected his claim for additional damages and expenses.
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