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by Mike Caswell

Jeffrey Turino, the CMKM Diamonds Inc. defendant who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud earlier this year, has been the subject of a bizarre series of letters to the judge. The letters, which have been appearing in the court file for months, accuse Mr. Turino of luring a man's wife into substance abuse. He has apparently taken the woman to several Nevada hotels and has been keeping her from her family.

The letters to the judge come at a delicate time for Mr. Turino, as he is awaiting sentencing for his role in the massive CMKM Diamonds fraud. Prosecutors claim that he and others, including Saskatchewan's Urban Casavant, were part of a scheme to dump billions of unregistered shares in the company, reaping $60-million in profits. (All figures are in U.S. dollars.) Although Mr. Turino was in the "shadows of the conspiracy" because of a prior penny stock ban, he still helped route share transactions through associates and nominees in Florida.

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