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Judge slams Karima Manji, rejects Crown's ask for 18 month sentence
A woman who admitted to defrauding Inuit organizations of more than $158,000 for her twin daughters' education has been sentenced to three years in a federal prison.
Karima Manji was sentenced in an Iqaluit courtroom Thursday morning.
According to an agreed statement of facts, Manji filled out forms in 2016 to enrol her daughters as Inuit children so they could become beneficiaries of the Nunavut land claim. In the forms, Manji said her daughters were born to the late Kitty Noah from Iqaluit. Manji claimed to be their adoptive mother.
Nunavut Justice Mia Manocchio rejected the 18-month sentence recommended by the Crown, saying "only a penitentiary term" will suffice.
Manocchio said Manji "victimized the Inuit of Nunavut by stealing their identity."
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Emma Tranter is a senior writer with CBC North in Yellowknife. She worked in journalism in Nunavut for five years, where she reported in Iqaluit for CBC, The Canadian Press and Nunatsiaq News. She can be reached at emma.tranter@cbc.ca.
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