French ex-PM Fillon handed suspended jail sentence over spouse’s phony job
Former French premier François Fillon was given a four-year suspended sentence for corruption on Tuesday over the “fake tasks” scandal that was fatal to his governmental bid in 2017. The ex-PM was condemned in 2022 for providing a legislative aide work to his better half for which she was paid numerous euros in public funds but for which she did no work..
Source: France 24