Is that MP different from these?
Id say not
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A husband and wife who carried out an identity and immigration scam to cheat £43,000 in benefits they were not entitled to have been convicted of fraud offences.
Juliet Ubiribo and Ovo Mayomi used a false identity to swindle taxpayers' money from the authorities.
Croydon Crown Court heard how Ubiribo claimed she was a single parent to claim housing and council tax benefit.
She said she needed help to pay £900 rent every month and filled in forms saying her landlord was Ayiomike Neburagho, who lived in Acton, west London.
But during 2006 her husband Ovo Mayomi was applying for a visa to stay in the UK. They said they were married in Nigeria in 2005, he was a successful businessman in Nigeria, had a fish farming business, had not been to the UK before and that Ubiribo had a job in the UK so she could financially support her husband.
This contradicted Ubiribo's benefit claim where she stated she was a single parent.
The court heard how Ubiribo also asked the council to re-house her because she was a victim of domestic violence.
However, the telephone number she gave for her ex partner and her landlord were the same.
Checks also showed that Neburagho did not live at the address in Acton. This indicated that her landlord, Neburagho, was also her husband, Mayomi.
This meant she was living with her husband in their property and that benefit money was paying the mortgage.
In January 2010 investigators from the council’s corporate anti fraud team, United Kingdom Border Agency (UKBA) and police called at the couple's home and to his business address in Old Kent Road.
Documentation and financial records were seized. Ubiribo and a man who said he was Mayomi, were arrested.
At Croydon police station Mayomi was fingerprinted and these matched the fingerprints of Neburagho who had been arrested in the past for drunk driving.
In interview Mayomi admitted that while living in Nigeria he had bought the identity of Ayiomike Matthew Neburagho and had come to the UK as him. Mayomi was also shown a wedding photograph of him, using the Neburagho identity, marrying a Nigerian woman in the UK. He admitted he was the groom in the wedding photo but he said he was "just standing in for someone".
Ubiribo and Mayomi both pleaded guilty to the charges they faced.
Judge Pratt sentenced Mayomi to 30 months in prison, while Ubiribo was sentenced to 12 months behind bars suspended for two years.
She was also sentenced to 200 hours of community service and will have to wear a tag and be under curfew for four months from 9pm to 6am. She is also repaying the benefit money she and her husband falsely claimed.
Councillor Dudley Mead, the council's cabinet member for finance and asset management, said: "The council takes the matter of fraud extremely seriously, every fraud has a victim, in this case these benefits cheats are cheating those who have a legitimate need for support. Hopefully this case will send a message out that not only will the council always prosecute, but also that that can lead to a spell behind bars for some."
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Having said that, as a trade, the drivers are crying poverty so you're not doing them any favours 
