Former Junior Minister Ivor Callely is due to be sentenced today for making a false mobile phone expenses claim. The maximum penalty is ten years in prison.
The 56-year-old former Fianna Fail junior minister, of St Lawrence's Road, Clontarf, and senator entered a plea of guilty last March weeks before he'd been due to stand trial on 6 charges.
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The allegations were that he used invoices as false instruments to receive expenses for handsets and equipment, under an Oireachtas mobile phone scheme.
When arraigned he admitted using a Business Communication Limited Invoice dated January 2002 as a false instrument in 2007 at Leinster House.
Today's sentencing hearing before Judge Mary Ellen Ring is expected to take about 40 minutes.
