BOSTON—An “almost illiterate” Nova Scotia man who made it rich in Massachusetts real estate and then fled across the border back to Canada on a rented snowmobile to avoid criminal prosecution has been jailed for 18 months. In March 2005, Lunn rented a snowmobile in Presque Isle, Maine, and took a remote trail into New Brunswick. A 2016 Nova Scotia Appeal Court ruling on his extradition to the U.S. described Lunn’s remarkable life story: “At 15, he left school and his Nova Scotia home to seek a better life in Toronto. He blamed a woman friend who was with him, and broke a bail condition by returning to Canada via the rented snowmobile in 2005. In 2006, he was charged with the bankruptcy fraud counts after his bankruptcy trustee heard Lunn had told a Nova Scotia court about the money he’d transferred to Canada during a family law case.

Source: National Post June 08, 2017 19:41 UTC