His wife received €1 mil for minimal work as her husband's parliamentary assistant. FMTNews FrancoisFillon
France’s former Prime Minister François Fillon and his wife Penelope arrive at a Paris courthouse on June 29.
In a scathing ruling, the chief judge said Fillon, 66, had eroded public trust in the political class as a result of paying his wife a salary that was disproportionate to the work done. A consummate political insider who was prime minister under Nicolas Sarkozy from 2007-2012, Fillon had been the frontrunner in the election race when the allegations surfaced.
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