The head of the UDI was tried for “embezzlement of public funds” for having paid more than 39,000 euros to his mother-in-law, in exchange for her help to write a book that has never appeared.
A conditional sentence of one year in prison was requested this Monday against the head of the UDI and former deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis Jean-Christophe Lagarde, suspected of having granted a fictitious job as a parliamentary assistant to his mother-in-law between May 2009 and August from 2010.
Tried for “embezzlement of public funds”, Jean-Christophe Lagarde had then recruited his wife’s mother, Monique Escolier-Lavail, and had paid her more than 39,000 euros in wages in exchange for her help writing a book on SMEs. that never showed up. A six-month sentence was requested against his stepmother, whose real work was questioned by the prosecution.
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Source: BFM TV
