A Moncton judge has found an Edmundston-area man guilty of various financial crimes, though acquitted or stayed other charges the 61-year-old faced.
61-year-old acquitted on several charges, others stayed
Shane Magee · CBC News
· Posted: May 29, 2026 4:08 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
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Daniel Bard outside the Moncton courthouse earlier in the trial. (Pascal Raiche-Nogue/Radio-Canada)
Daniel Bard has been found guilty of a series of financial crimes across New Brunswick.
The 61-year-old from the Edmundston area was led into custody by a sheriff following the verdict Friday afternoon in Moncton. He’ll remain in jail pending sentencing in July.
Judge Anne Richard convicted Bard of 11 of the 19 charges he faced, dismissing his defence assertion he overpromised and failed to deliver on major financial deals.
“The evidence is not equivocal,” Richard said, saying Bard represented himself deceptively and persuasively as a successful international businessman.
“Mr. Bard repeatedly name-dropped what were purportedly were his clients to induce the complainants to use his services and disburse funds to him,” the judge said in her decision.
“There’s no evidence that any commercial projects that he had any hand in that were in fact successful,
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