Queen of Kanesatake home up in smoke

Sharon Simon was arrested in Project Cleopatra, and was the ringleader of the smuggling plot.

The 'Queen of Kanesatake', Sharon Simon, 60 was fined $12k and $35k for contraband tobacco and marijuana production. She was sentenced to 50 months in penitentiary after pleading guilty to gangsterism, drug trafficking and possession of a prohibited weapon in 2007. In December 2018 HA heavyweight Martin Robert, 44, and Annie Arbic, 32, were married at Montreal’s Windsor Ballrooms. Nearly 300 invitees, the top levels of Montreal's organized crime, attended the event.

Arbic is Simon's daughter. Simon helped her daughter Annie Arbic launder about $4m between January and June 2006. Simon also helped Serge Bourret, 59, launder $2m in drug money. Bourret was sentenced to a three-year prison term.The luxury home was completely destroyed in what is thought to be a case of arson.