Overview
- Ontario Superior Court Justice Anne Molloy found the 93-year-old businessman guilty on two charges related to two women, delivering the ruling on Friday, June 19, 2026.
- The convictions cover one count of sexual assault involving a former Rooney’s employee and one count of indecent assault tied to a patron who visited Stronach’s apartment.
- The Toronto judge-alone trial began in February with 12 counts linked to seven complainants but narrowed as the Crown withdrew multiple charges after witnesses gave inconsistent or weakened evidence.
- Molloy said she could not rely on one complainant’s testimony and called it unreliable; Stronach pleaded not guilty, did not testify, and the defence argued police notes and some witness accounts were flawed.
- A sentencing hearing is scheduled for September and a separate related trial in Newmarket has been set for next May, leaving further legal consequences and public scrutiny of how historical sexual-assault cases are investigated and prosecuted.