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Slipper to be sentenced for fraud

Former Speaker Peter Slipper will learn if he’s going to jail after being convicted for using taxpayer-funded cab charges to visit Canberra’s wine region.

In July, Mr Slipper was found guilty of three counts of dishonesty and could face up to a year in prison or $10,000 in fines when he’s sentenced on Monday in the ACT Magistrates Court.

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 The former Queensland MP had admitted using his government travel entitlements to visit the vineyards outside Canberra on three separate occasions in 2010 but always denied he acted dishonestly.

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