{"id":10344,"date":"2011-07-20T07:59:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T11:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=10344"},"modified":"2011-07-20T08:00:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T12:00:17","slug":"trial-to-start-for-attorney-accused-of-stealing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/07\/trial-to-start-for-attorney-accused-of-stealing","title":{"rendered":"Another Corrupt Bahamian Lawyer on Theft Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Testimony is expected to begin on Thursday in the trial of an attorney accused of stealing by reason of service and fraudulent breach of trust.<\/p>\n<p>Ralph Jan Ward is accused of stealing property worth $47,500 from Scotiabank Bahamas Limited between January 24, 2007 and April 16, 2007, which he had access to by reason of service.<\/p>\n<p>Ward is also accused of misappropriating the property, which was given to him as a trustee on behalf of Leterio Edgecombe.\u00a0 The offense allegedly occurred between September 22, 2006 and April 16, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Vera Watkins dismissed the nine-member jury and six witnesses after the jury was impanelled.\u00a0 She told them that following closed-door discussions with the prosecutor and the defendant it was decided that the case would begin on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Eucal Bonaby and Vanda Mackey-Williams are the prosecutors.\u00a0 Ward represents himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Testimony is set to begin on Thursday in the trial of Ralph Jan Ward &#8211; accused of stealing property worth $47,500 from Scotiabank Bahamas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[87,93,151,31,98,123,134],"class_list":["post-10344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-banking","tag-corruption","tag-court","tag-crime","tag-financial","tag-lawyers","tag-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}