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Liczyk to plead guilty at disciplinary hearing
JOHN BARBER
Former city treasurer Wanda Liczyk, disgraced by the findings of the Bellamy inquiry into civic corruption two years ago, is expected to plead guilty to charges of professional misconduct at a disciplinary hearing of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario scheduled for next month.
"We anticipate a plea," ICAO spokesman Peter Varley said yesterday, adding that the bargain reached between the two parties will likely include an agreed statement of facts in which Ms. Liczyk, hand-picked by former mayor Mel Lastman to manage the finances of newly amalgamated Toronto, admits to having compromised the public interest in her relations with a contractor.
Ms. Liczyk faced three charges of violating an institute rule requiring chartered accountants to "act at all times in a manner which will maintain the good reputation of the profession and its ability to serve the public interest."
All three charges targeted Ms. Liczyk's relationship with Michael Saunders, a U.S. computer consultant she employed while working as North York treasurer, and with whom she had an affair.
The charges made no mention of her subsequent role at the centre of the computer-leasing scandal that rocked the Lastman mayoralty, which inspired sharp criticism in the Bellamy report.
Among other things, Madam Justice Denise Bellamy found that Ms. Liczyk compromised the public interest in her relationship with computer salesman Dash Domi.
That omission inspired council to pass a motion this month instructing city solicitor Anna Kinastowski to seek standing at the coming hearing in order to demand that the institute press more charges against Ms. Liczyk.
But two days before the hearing into the question of city standing, which was scheduled for yesterday, Ms. Kinastowski declined the institute's request to appear.
"We advise that we treat this matter at an end," she wrote.
JOHN BARBER
Former city treasurer Wanda Liczyk, disgraced by the findings of the Bellamy inquiry into civic corruption two years ago, is expected to plead guilty to charges of professional misconduct at a disciplinary hearing of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario scheduled for next month.
"We anticipate a plea," ICAO spokesman Peter Varley said yesterday, adding that the bargain reached between the two parties will likely include an agreed statement of facts in which Ms. Liczyk, hand-picked by former mayor Mel Lastman to manage the finances of newly amalgamated Toronto, admits to having compromised the public interest in her relations with a contractor.
Ms. Liczyk faced three charges of violating an institute rule requiring chartered accountants to "act at all times in a manner which will maintain the good reputation of the profession and its ability to serve the public interest."
All three charges targeted Ms. Liczyk's relationship with Michael Saunders, a U.S. computer consultant she employed while working as North York treasurer, and with whom she had an affair.
The charges made no mention of her subsequent role at the centre of the computer-leasing scandal that rocked the Lastman mayoralty, which inspired sharp criticism in the Bellamy report.
Among other things, Madam Justice Denise Bellamy found that Ms. Liczyk compromised the public interest in her relationship with computer salesman Dash Domi.
That omission inspired council to pass a motion this month instructing city solicitor Anna Kinastowski to seek standing at the coming hearing in order to demand that the institute press more charges against Ms. Liczyk.
But two days before the hearing into the question of city standing, which was scheduled for yesterday, Ms. Kinastowski declined the institute's request to appear.
"We advise that we treat this matter at an end," she wrote.