Solange Crevier, 60, has been convicted several times for fraud and the production of false documents since the early 2000s.
The dutyreveals Monday that she was one of the leaders of a placement agency that paid immigrants $10 an hour to clean hospitals in Montreal. Her name does not appear in official records, the company being instead registered under the name of her spouse, Marc Turcotte. But before the Court of Appeal, she herself affirmed that she “must watch over the activities of the company which she [son conjoint] is the owner. Four agency employees also recognized her as “the boss” when we questioned them.
Mme Crevier was recently in the media for having billed fees of half a million dollars to Desjardins. These sums were paid to her between 2015 and 2017 when she was an IT consultant under an identity stolen from a relative, recalled judge Annie Trudel, in a judgment rendered in 2023. She had replaced the photo on a driving license and a health insurance card to complete identity checks at Desjardins. Anonymous information was provided to a company inspector, ultimately terminating the employment relationship.
Between 2014 and 2016, the Ministry of Culture also paid him remuneration on behalf of Solane Greuier. Another department employee was alerted when she received a call for “Solange Crevier,” according to court documents. Not having any employees in that name, she did some research on the Internet to find that Mme Crevier used another identity.
In her judgment on these two cases (rendered in June 2023), Judge Annie Trudel notably underlined “the extent of the fraudulent actions, their duration, their degree of sophistication, of premeditation, as well as their repetitions”. This examination allowed him to conclude that he had “full responsibility” as well as his “moral culpability”.
Between regrets and victimization
Even though she pleaded guilty, Mme Crevier then tried to argue that she had acted in this way given that it was impossible for her to keep a job in her area of expertise due to her background. “Someone took it upon himself,” she said, “to warn his employer that he had a thief in his service,” noted the Court of Appeal in its decision of April 9, which dismissed her appeal.
She therefore came to the conclusion that Solange Crevier had to “disappear”. She thus minimized her crimes by claiming not to be motivated by greed, but by the simple desire to “thrive professionally”, recalls the same court.
His delinquent behavior nevertheless has a “structured character”, probation officer Joanie Constantin also noted in a pre-sentence report. Dissatisfied with these conclusions, Mme Crevier had retained the services of another expert, criminologist Maria Mourani. She wrote for the Court of Quebec that she noted that the woman expressed “many regrets” and that she was experiencing psychological distress, in particular because of the media coverage of her problems with the law.
Mme Mourani, however, also noted that she was victimizing herself. In her testimony, she reported that Mme Crevier told him: “I admitted my guilt, but that doesn’t mean I did it. »
Other backgrounds
Solange Crevier was also found guilty of stealing 20 computers and 20 monitors from Bombardier in the early 2000s, in order to resell them. One of these computers had been purchased on the eBay site by an engineer from California: when he opened it, the name of the company Bombardier appeared on the screen with an “impressive list of telephone numbers from several countries which appear to be related to the company’s affairs,” it was written in a 2006 judgment.
This engineer in question, the purchaser of a computer which he did not know was stolen, had exchanged with Marc Turcotte, it is recorded in the decision. This is the spouse of M.me Crevier, who admitted in an interview with Duty paying immigrants $10 an hour, “while waiting” for them to receive their work permit.
In 2019, she also pleaded guilty to two charges of fraud and using a false birth certificate at VIA Rail. She received a six-month prison sentence in 2020 for these latter facts. But she escaped imprisonment for more than a year, notably because of a health problem, which journalists described as “mysterious”. Even a judge grew impatient with the medical evidence presented to justify the postponements of her case.
In total, five lawyers are on her file in the latest case which spanned from 2019 to 2024. The last criminal lawyer on file, Samantha Di Done, did not respond to messages from Duty.