Former MP Jim Devine guilty of expenses fraud
Former MP Jim Devine guilty of expenses fraud | Reuters: "Devine, 57, the first MP to stand trial after the parliamentary expenses scandal, was convicted on two charges of false accounting at Southwark Crown Court in London.
A jury cleared him of a third charge relating to 360 pounds of taxpayers' money that he sought to pay a cleaner, the Press Association reported.
The former union official and chairman of the Scottish Labour Party, who represented the town of Livingston, east of Edinburgh, was bailed and will be sentenced in four weeks."
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