This year, Jory joined the students' association council and did not disclose his criminal history, nor was he asked about it. Mark Shayne Jory was until last week the mature student rep on the Otago Polytechnic Students' Association's council. Jory, a former financial and insurance adviser in his 50s, hatched a plan to defraud seven insurance companies by applying for false insurance policies and collecting the commissions. His role was to represent mature students and he had done so professionally, but Jory had to be stood down because he had a dishonesty conviction within the past seven years. An adulterer who defrauded insurance companies to meet his lover's blackmail demands lost his place on a student committee because of his offending.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 22, 2016 05:52 UTC