Bad month for Xstrata, one of the worlds biggest mining groups.
First, CAW Local 599 goes on strike in Timmins, Ontario at the Copper Kidd Metallurgical mine.
Then it's pitch to take over Lonmin, an Anglo-African platinum mine company , fails because of the Credit Crisis.
Xstrata took over Canadian mining company Falconbridge in 2006.
Shawn Brant has had 7 of the charges against him dropped by the Ontario Crown.
He has plead guilty to 3 of the other charges against him and according to CBC will "receive a sentence of time already served in pretrial detention, plus a 90-day conditional sentence to be spent on his reserve."
A presentation made in August of this year in Napanee, Ontario by Brant's lawyer, Peter Rosenthal, warned that Brant was going to expose police actions if taken to trail including alleged illegal wire tapping by the OPP and the reversal of previously granted immunity.
The crown was seeking a 12 year jail sentence for Brant.
*Correction: In the original edit of this posting, Peter Rosenthal was incorrectly said to have made a presentation in Caledonia. The presentation was in Napanee.
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