"Ex-Labour minister Denis MacShane to be suspended from the Commons for ONE YEAR after claiming expenses on 19 fake invoices
For three years the Rotheram MP created invoices from the European Policy Institute worth £12,900 to pay for him to travel around Europe
Bills were signed with a 'nom de plume' purporting to come from a General Manager who did not in fact exist
He also claimed for eight computers, including a laptop which he let an intern keep when they stopped working for him
Committee on Standards and Privileges delivers damning verdict: 'This is so far from what would be acceptable in any walk of life'
MP also criticised for failing to co-operate with parliamentary inquiry
Labour says the 64-year-old's career is 'effectively over'
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I thought he was a good bloke
but fiddling the money - not good