The former director-general of Hudson has pleaded guilty to fraud charges.

Louise Léger-Villandré defrauded the town of more than a million dollars between 1996 and 2003, when she retired.

UPAC arrested her in Oct. 2014. According to a press release issued at the time, Villandré would sometimes take cheques written to the city and deposit them into her own account.

She was facing 19 fraud-related charges. She pleaded guilty to breach of trust and the fabrication of false documents.

Léger-Villandré is due back in court in late February.