{"id":16908,"date":"2014-07-02T20:01:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T12:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=16908"},"modified":"2014-07-02T20:01:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T12:01:23","slug":"manitoba-mayor-says-reputation-stained-despite-stay-of-criminal-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/07\/02\/manitoba-mayor-says-reputation-stained-despite-stay-of-criminal-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Manitoba mayor says reputation stained, despite stay of criminal charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17795\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17795\" style=\"width: 352px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Turnbull-Lake-Tourist-Centre.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Turnbull-Lake-Tourist-Centre.jpg\" alt=\"Turnbull Lake Tourist Centre at Leaf Rapids. Photo from townofleafrapids.com.\" width=\"352\" height=\"265\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17795\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Turnbull-Lake-Tourist-Centre.jpg 352w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Turnbull-Lake-Tourist-Centre-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17795\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Turnbull Lake Tourist Centre at Leaf Rapids. Photo from townofleafrapids.com.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LEAF RAPIDS, Manitoba\u2014The Crown has stayed 28 fraud, forgery and mail theft charges against the mayor of a remote northern Manitoba town.<\/p>\n<p>Geraldine Cockerill, who is 58, was arrested in December 2012 after a lengthy investigation by the RCMP at Leaf Rapids.<\/p>\n<p>The charges related to Cockerill&#8217;s time as the postmaster in Leaf Rapids in 2009 and early 2010, prior to being elected mayor of the community.<\/p>\n<p>She was fired when the allegations surfaced and also lost two other part-time jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Crown lawyer David Gray says the charges were stayed for a technical reason, but he did not give details.<\/p>\n<p>Cockerill has been allowed to stay on as mayor, but she says being charged has permanently damaged her reputation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEAF RAPIDS, Manitoba\u2014The Crown has stayed 28 fraud, forgery and mail theft charges against the mayor of a remote northern &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":17795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}