MEP's gravy train to jail
Crook we nailed on video is convicted
A CROOKED Euro MP exposed by the News of the World for bragging how he makes "shedloads" by milking expenses is now facing JAIL.
We captured podgy former UKIP MEP Tom Wise on damning video as he guzzled taxpayer-funded beer and boasted of creaming £2,000 a week in dodgy claims on top of his fat £61,820 salary.
And last week he finally got his come-uppance in court for yet ANOTHER scam - forced to admit a £36,000 expenses fiddle channelling a secretarial allowance into a bank account controlled by HIM.
Wise, 61, pretended the £3,000 monthly handout would be paid to his 62-year-old researcher Lindsay Jenkins. But Southwark Crown Court was told he passed on just £500 and spent the rest on a car, fine wines and credit card debts.
He will be sentenced on Wednesday and faces up to seven years behind bars.
You can see OUR shocking video evidence of ex-cop Wise's cash-grabbing below. We nailed the scheming East of England MEP, from Leighton Buzzard, Beds, during an undercover investigation into corruption at the European Parliament in Brussels and Strasbourg last year.
We revealed how it cost more than £1 MILLION to keep him on the gravy train since taking up his seat in 2004.
READ OUR ORIGINAL MEP INVESTIGATION
At one stage he said the best thing about being an MEP was: "The opportunity to make shedloads of money. . . I made £2,000 this week!"
The MEP was trousering £226 a day just for turning up, £39,012 a year in no-questions-asked office expenses, plus a £162,852 allowance to spend on staff. He even crowed of exploiting loopholes that allowed him to buy budget Ryanair plane tickets but claim back business class fares.
On tape he confessed: "Yes, I'm milking the system in as much as I'm overpaid for the amount of expenses I've had.
"But the system is 'Ignore what it's cost you, this is what we pay you!' "
Smugly he added: "I clean up the profit."
Not any more you don't - thanks to the News of the World and British justice.
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This article has 2 comments
At least UKIP kicked him out pronto when he was discovered to be on the fiddle. It's a shame Cameron, Brown and Clegg do not do the same with their corrupt MP's, all of whom are still sitting in the Commons.
By Kevin. Posted November 7 2009 at 11:41 PM.
He is only one, why do you think all (WELL NEARLY ALL)MP'sare so intent on making us give our independance and money over to brussels because there getting shedloads to sell us down the river
By Sydney Hobson. Posted November 7 2009 at 11:35 PM.