Tory peer convicted of expenses fraud

[muriel_volestrangler]

A former Tory peer has been found guilty of six counts of expenses fraud.

Lord Hanningfield, 70, a former Lords opposition frontbencher and Essex County Council leader, was convicted by a jury of nine women and three men at Chelmsford Crown Court following an eight day trial.
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He had denied fraudulently claiming parliamentary expenses totalling nearly £14,000 between March 2006 and May 2009. The charges relate to six individual one month periods.

But the jury found that he unlawfully claimed expenses, including £13,379 for overnight stays in London when he was not in the capital.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/tory-peer-convicted-of-expenses-fraud-2289256.html

[oldironside]

1. There's nothing quite as satisfying...

... as seeing a Roller get clamped.

[Hopeless Romantic]

2. Good. Evens things up a little bit

[LeftishBrit]

3. I was giggling a bit at the first line of the third paragraph of this related article

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/expenses-peer-lord-hanningfield-is-found-guilty-ndash-on-day-disgraced-mp-is-freed-early-2289713.html

'On one occasion the peer, who was a pig'...

Quite so!

Then I noted that the next line begins 'farmer'. Pity.