Claude Lavigne was convicted of paying poor people ten dollars every time they voted for the Liberals. In September of the same year, former Liberal Party campaign worker Alberto Berardinucci was fined ten thousand dollars for hiring people to vote several times using false names. The province's chief electoral officer concluded that the Liberal Party had not orchestrated the vote-buying scheme, and Lamoureux was not personally implicated in the scandal. He nonetheless resigned from the legislature on September 19, 2001, one day after Berardinucci's conviction, on the grounds that doubts had been cast on the validity of his election. A Montreal Gazette columnist later noted that no-one was certain if enough fraudulent votes had been cast to affect the outcome of the vote. Lamoureux was not a candidate in the by-election that followed his resignation. Subsequent career Lamoureux returned to practicing law from 2001 to 2003, working with the firm of Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt. From 2003 to 2006, he was chief of staff to Quebec's Treasury Board president, Monique Jérôme-Forget. In 2006, he was appointed as vice-president of subsidiaries for Investissement Québec and chief executive officer of FIER Partenaires. Lamoureux joined the board of directors of the École polytechnique de Montréal and the company Innovatech in March 2009. The following year, he joined the Kirchner Private Capital Group and served on the board of Réseau capital. Electoral record References External links 1974 births Living people Quebec Liberal Party MNAs People from Anjou, Quebec Politicians from Montreal Université de Montréal alumni HEC Montréal alumni 21st-century Canadian politicians