Claude Peters, the taxi driver who was charged in July with misusing money given to him by a Nigerian national to buy an engine, has been fined $100,000 by a city court after being found guilty.
Magistrate Fabayo Azore told Peters on Friday that a charge of fraudulent conversion usually carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison but, given the circumstances, she would ask him to pay the fine or spend an alternative of 12 months in prison.
The charge read to Peters in July of this year stated that between June 1st and June 3rd, at
