Huron-Superior Catholic District School Board Trustee Dr. Grace Tridico was today ordered to pay a $2,800 fine for violating provincial election law during the 2006 municipal elections.
In addition to the fine, she was ordered to pay a 25 percent victim surcharge, bringing Tridico's total penalty to $3,500.
The local chiropractor was found guilty last May of providing false information to a municipal elections staffer and illegally helping someone vote in a place other than where they were supposed to vote.
Crown attorney Glen Wasyliniuk and Tridico's lawyer Augusto Palombi had suggested that the school trustee be ordered make a donation to the Algoma Residential Community Hospice, but the court opted instead for a fine.
Tridico must pay the $3,500 within 30 days.
The school trustee (shown in a SooToday.com file photo taken in 2002) intends to appeal both the sentence and her conviction. Her sister, Ward 4 City Councillor Lorena Tridico, is charged with being party to furnishing false information to an election official and being party to the offence of voting at the wrong polling station.
That trial got underway today.