Americans arrested in alleged multi-million mask swindle of Canadians during pandemic

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Fraudsters in the U.S. swindled funds that were supposed to buy 12 million face masks for Canadians in the frantic early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new criminal indictment alleges.American authorities this week arrested two residents of New York State, charging them with wire fraud in an alleged $8.2-million US scam.Jonathan Cannon and Julie Dotton are accused of devising a scheme in which they falsely promised millions of masks to a Canadian company that was supplying two provinces."The d