After weeks of police silence on the case, Det. Sgt. Susan Gomes of the Toronto police homicide unit gave a public update Friday afternoon, shortly after the Sherman mansion was finally handed back to the control of their family.
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Police found no signs of forced entry on all access points to the home, she said.
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After the announcement, the family said they were not surprised by the police conclusion.
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The Sherman's were one of Canada's richest couples; Barry's story of building a huge pharmaceutical empire was compelling and his fiercely litigious and pit-bull style of business became legendary; and the couple's generous philanthropy made them enormously influential and well loved.
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Barry Sherman knew he had enemies and years before his death he wondered aloud why someone hadn't hired someone to kill him.
"They hate us. They have private investigators on us all the time, trying to investigate. The thought once came to my mind, why didn't they just hire someone to knock me off. For a thousand bucks paid to the right person you can probably get someone killed. Perhaps I'm surprised that hasn't happened," Barry Sherman told American author Jeffrey Robinson during an interview in 2000.
The shadowy "they" he spoke of were those profiting handsomely from the huge, international brand-name pharmaceutical industry.
Sherman made it his business to smash the pharmaceutical cartels by punching holes in their patent protection and wiggling through intellectual property rights to allow him to bring generic versions of popular and profitable medicine to market.
Meanwhile, Apotex Inc. president and CEO Jeremy Desai has resigned effective immediately from the generic drug giant that Sherman started. Jack Kay, who previously served as CEO for the privately held company, will be the chief executive while maintaining his current position as vice-chairman.
On Thursday, the federal lobbying watchdog ended its investigation into a complaint over fundraising efforts by the Shermans for Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party. Their deaths were cited as the reason for closing the file. Apotex was registered to lobby the Prime Minister's Office when the Shermans hosted a fundraiser in their home in 2015, and sold tickets to an event in 2016.
Former employees said the company's security team for many years was more focused on abuse by real users, including racist and sexist content and orchestrated harassment campaigns. Only recently, they said, after revelations that Russia-aligned hackers had deployed networks of Twitter bots to spread divisive content and junk news, has Twitter turned more attention to weeding out fake accounts.They state it as fact but so far, no evidence has yet to surface that proves without doubt the "Russian bots" narrative. If the Times were able to reveal so much about Devumi's tactics through their investigation, then surely they'd be able find some "proof" of Russian Twitter bots? Or perhaps they can't because there isn't any. See also:
Comment: Cuts to social services have surely had an impact on the rise in crime but clearly the police force and the government policies they're tasked with implementing have their priorities back to front: London crime wave: Theft, burglary, rape, violent crime and homicide skyrocket