UK NEWS: TORY PEER LORD TAYLOR OF WARWICK JAILED FOR 12 MONTHS FOR FIDDLING EXPENSES

May 31, 2011

  Via The Daily Mail A disgraced former Tory peer was jailed for 12 months today for fiddling his parliamentary expenses. Lord Taylor of Warwick, 58, falsely filed for travel and overnight subsistence to claim more than £11,000 from the taxpayer, Southwark Crown Court heard. He told the House of Lords members’ expenses office that his main residence was a house in Oxford, when in fact he lived in West London. The peer never stayed in and only twice visited the Oxford […]