Brenda Martin is Quinte’s Newsmaker of Year

Posted on Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

We heard her tearful, sobbing pleas for help for what seemed like years before she was finally released from a Mexican Prison this Spring.  Brenda Martin is the Quinte Broadcasting newsmaker of the year for 2008. The 51-year old Trenton native was convicted of money-laundering in Mexico and sentenced to five years in April after spending several years in prison without ever being charged in connection with a multi-million dollar internet fraud scheme orchestrated by her former boss Richard Alan Waage of Edmonton . An Edmonton journalist alerted our newsroom and other local media to Martin’s plight and it eventually became a national story making it to front pages across the country until her release and transfer back to Canada on May 1st. Martin is currently living in Trenton.

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