{"id":37283,"date":"2013-07-15T08:06:39","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T12:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=37283"},"modified":"2013-07-15T08:07:45","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T12:07:45","slug":"fraud-charged-physicians-wife-denied-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/07\/fraud-charged-physicians-wife-denied-bail","title":{"rendered":"Fraud-Charged Physician&#8217;s Wife Denied Bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31141 alignleft\" title=\"arthur-porter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/arthur-porter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/arthur-porter.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/arthur-porter-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>The wife of former MUHC boss Dr Arthur Porter will remain in a Canadian prison until a preliminary inquiry in September, according to Quebec court Judge Robert Marchi.<\/p>\n<p>According to media reports, former Old Fort Bay resident Pamela Mattock Porter became the first person arrested by the province\u2019s anti-corruption unit to be denied bail.<\/p>\n<p>The bail process was covered by a publication ban; however it was reported that the judge sided with Crown prosecution that Mrs Porter presented a flight risk.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Porter was extradited to Canada in June, and has been in detention since she was arrested in Panama with her husband on May 26.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian police believe the former Bahamas resident conspired with her husband to launder millions of dollars, according to the arrest warrant obtained by The Tribune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Arthur Porter faces fraud charges surrounding the construction of the McGill University Health Centre. His wife was also arrested by the province\u2019s anti-corruption unit and has been denied bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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":[77,93,19],"class_list":["post-37283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-canada","tag-corruption","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37283","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}