Lawyer Suspended For Misusing Band TLE Funds

Friday, October 08, 2010 at 15:27

A Saskatchewan lawyer has been ordered to repay money he misappropriated from a First Nation.

The Law Society found Albert Angus misappropriated funds from the Mosquito-Grizzly Bear’s Head-Lean Man First Nation’s Treaty Entitlement Trust, and he now has to pay restitution of $10,740 to the band.

He is also ordered to pay more than $8,100 to the Law Society of Saskatchewan.

In addition, Angus has been suspended from practice for one year.