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The lawyer for the female complainant at the centre of the strange sexual assault mistrial for business tycoon Frank Stronach said he feels he was a pawn in the high-profile case against one of Canada’s richest men. Speaking publicly for the first time, Ontario lawyer Shale Wagman, whose indiscreet discussion with Stronach’s defence lawyer led a judge to overturn her own guilty verdict last month, told National Post he doesn’t think a mistrial was the right call, accused Stronach’s lawyer of “sneakily” getting information from him, and complained the verdict led to his character being...