Ex-minister O’Keeffe guilty of phone expenses fraud
Mr O’Keeffe, who presented himself voluntarily to Togher Garda Station yesterday morning, had fines totalling €3,500 and a seven-month suspended jail sentence imposed on him at Cork District Court.
In a statement issued after the hearing, he said his failure to keep and maintain detailed records of all expense claims “has given rise to my inability to assist the authorities in clarifying their queries in the fullest manner on each of the claims referred to in today’s charges”.
