Peter Giannuzzi News Today

The City of Winnipeg has dropped its lawsuit against a subcontractor it had accused of defrauding taxpayers, but is continuing its civil action against a group of defendants it added in May 2022.

The lawyer representing a Winnipeg company and its owner failed to convince a judge to keep his clients off the list of defendants in a lawsuit over the construction of the downtown police headquarters building.

The City of Winnipeg says the contractor in charge of building the Winnipeg Police Service headquarters used the project to settle outstanding debts with subtrades for money owed on other construction projects, new court filings reveal.

The City of Winnipeg claims kickbacks to its project manager and overpayments to contractors resulte...