Prosecutors: Linda O'Leary won't face jail time if convicted in deadly boat crash

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The Public Prosecution Service of Canada has confirmed that $10,000 is the maximum penalty Linda O’Leary could face in connection with a deadly boat crash last summer.

Last month, O’Leary, the wife of celebrity businessman Kevin O’Leary, was charged with careless operation of a vessel under the Canada Shipping Act in connection with a boat crash in Muskoka that left two people dead.

“The PPSC has reconsidered the position on maximum penalty in light of the Canada Shipping Act and its regulations and are of the opinion that the maximum applicable penalty for a pleasure craft’s contravention of s. 1007 of the Small Vessel Regulations is $10,000.00,” the PPSC said in an email on Friday.

The driver of the other boat, 57-year-old New York resident Richard Ruh, has been charged with one count of failing to exhibit a navigation light under Sec. 23 of the Canada Shipping Act. He referred to O’Leary as a “cautious" and "experienced boater" who collided with an unlit watercraft on a "dark and moonless night.”

 

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The boating laws are to blame. The Greenspan lawyer did his job and that’s all. A tragedy though.

White Privilege!

Privilege

$$$$$$$$$$$$

Rich white people don't go to jail.

Justice prevails.

Send her back don’t waste our tax dollars

What idiot drives a boat fast, in the dark?

Well that is total bullshit.

This is good to know. Canadians can drink and boat and take lives without jail time - the precedent has been set.

Somebody has to, the law is the law and this rich idiot tends to bend everything over for fun the scumbags

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