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Mark Pack

Charlie Gordon MSP: the curious case of high expense claims and payments to his son

By Mark Pack | Tue 3rd February 2009 - 10:22 pm

Labour MSP Charlie Gordon has been in the news over his high level of expense claims. It’s not the first time he, money and politics have been in the news, for he’s the man who resigned as Labour’s transport spokesman over a dodgy overseas donation for Wendy Alexander’s Scottish Labour leadership campaign.

Charlie Gordon’s payments to his son

This time though it’s the level of expenses he has been claiming as an MSP that are in the news – including the fact that a large part of them have been paid to his son, Gavin …

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Mark Pack

Award of honours returns to haunt Labour’s donations scandal

By Mark Pack | Sun 2nd December 2007 - 11:43 am

From today’s Scotland on Sunday:

THE businessman at the centre of the Wendy Alexander donation scandal was backed for an honour by senior figures in the Labour Party, it emerged last night.

MSP Charlie Gordon, who resigned last week as Labour’s transport spokesman after it emerged he arranged an illegal donation from Jersey tycoon Paul Green, has now admitted he earlier supported the same businessman for an unspecified honour.

Oops. There’s more in the full story.

Meanwhile, the Sunday Herald (who have been leading the way in investigating the Wendy Alexander donation story) reports evidence that questions over Paul Green’s donations were covered-up:

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