Montreal mayor Gerald Tremblay resigned Monday after witnesses linked him to illegal party financing skimmed from city construction contracts as part of an alleged mafia scheme. Tremblay, 70, led Canada’s second-largest city since 2001 and would not have faced reelection until the end of his latest mandate in 2013. “After…
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