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Originally Posted by papa smurf
Now an ex-MINISTER is jailed for expenses fraud: Weeping Elliot Morley sent down after claiming £30,000 in bogus mortgage claims
Former Cabinet minister Elliot Morley wept yesterday as he was jailed for 16 months for committing the biggest fraud in the parliamentary expenses scandal.
The ex-Labour MP swindled more than £31,000 for mortgage payments from the public purse.
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I wonder if they were tears of remorse or indignation......
I do have some sympathy for him and his fellow jailbirds, however, since certain lordly snouts in the "Upper House's" much abused trough seem to have got off very lightly indeed.....