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by Mike Caswell
Vancouver lawyer John Briner claims a business fraud lawsuit he faces in the Supreme Court of British Columbia has no merit and was filed by a woman seeking to extract a quick settlement. The woman, Erin Winczura, knew that there was no basis for the case, Mr. Briner says. Despite that, she sued him with the expectation that media interest in the story would motivate Mr. Briner to settle the matter.
Mr. Briner made the statements in response to a lawsuit that Ms. Winczura filed on Aug. 14, 2013, against him and a former PI Financial Inc. broker, David Coolidge. Ms. Winczura claimed that she had been a victim of a business fraud. She said she was entitled to some of the money from a $250,000 (U.S.) mining property sale in Mexico, but she received nothing. Instead Mr. Coolidge dispersed much of the money for his own benefit, with Mr. Briner's help, her suit stated.
As Mr. Briner sees it, Ms. Winczura's lawsuit has no chance of success. In a response filed Nov. 7, 2014, he says that prior to her filing the case, he had more than one conversation with Ms. Winczura and her lawyer in which he made it clear that there was no basis to sue him. He explained that he was acting as an assistant to Mr. Coolidge, exclusively at his instruction and direction.
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If John Briner told me that the sky was blue, I would swear that it must be red.
Normally, you would have to go to a swindler's convention to find a man as honest as John Briner.