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Ex-crown fighting money-laundering charges

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He was acquitted at his first trial, but that wasn’t the end of Jeff Root’s legal troubles.

The former federal prosecutor is being re-tried on four counts of conspiracy and attempting to launder money. He was in a Welland courtroom Monday defending himself. As Lauran Sabourin reports, Root got caught up in an RCMP sting that had targeted the Hells Angels.