You couldn't make it up. Even those working in the parliamentary fees office were at it.
A top House of Commons official whose department was at the centre of the MPs expenses scandal has quit in disgrace after being arrested over fraud allegations.
Andrew Gibson, 49, who worked in the parliamentary Fees Office, was detained as a result of the long-running police investigation into MPs' expenses.
The Fees Office, and its role in agreeing MPs’ expense claims, was central to the controversy that engulfed the Commons last year.
Well I suppose he saw how the troughers MP's could do it, and thought that he'd have a piece of it as well.
Inquiries by Scotland Yard revealed discrepancies in accounts handled by Gibson, a Resources Budget Officer who was well known to MPs as the man at the desk in the Fees Office who handled their expenses claims.
Full story here in the Mail
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