Nathan Jacobson: Toronto Police

Federal Justice Department Dept: Jacobson, who was close to federal cabinet ministers, was arrested by Toronto police last Thursday for extradition to the United States after he failed to show up for sentencing this summer for a 2008 money laundering conviction, according to Montreal Gazette. The opposition has asked why it took so long for the government to bring Jacobson to justice, and questioned whether it has anything to do with his friendship with Immigration Minister Jason Kenney and Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird and a lawyer for the federal justice department agreed to let fugitive businessman Nathan Jacobson out on bail on Wednesday in spite of a warning from a confidential informant that earlier led police to arrest him. He was in jail from Thursday until Wednesday, when a lawyer representing the federal Justice Department appeared in Ontario Superior Court to announce he had reached an agreement with Jacobson s lawyer. Jacobson paid $600,000 in bail and his lawyer handed over his Israeli and his Canadian passports. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.