Famous Fiddlers (of expenses)

Derek Conway surely deserves a top ten place for the breathtaking way he employed his high living student son as parliamentary researcher. But who else makes the SCAM (that's the Scandalous and/or Corrupt Adminstrative Misrepresentations) Top Ten? 

My top three? Straight in a number one is Dennis Kozlowski of the US engineering firm Tyco. It takes great skill to spend $6,000 on a shower curtain. Expense claims forms feature some of the finest stories ever penned by journalists: but let Conrad Black, former proprietor of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph stand as the hero of their art. There is no other place to hold a birthday party for one's wife than Bora Bora in the South Pacific. And I am going to nominate Emporer Nero too. Or was he fidlling with something else as Rome burned?

PS I shall file this under enterprise. Obviously.