Another former WA politician has pleaded guilty to hindering a corruption investigation into his misuse of taxpayer-funded electoral allowances — in this instance by lying under oath and throwing his mobile phone into the ocean.
Brian Ellis, 72, a former Liberal member of the Legislative Council, on Wednesday pleaded guilty to two charges arising from a 2019 Corruption and Crime Commission (CCC) investigation, which later found he had used his allowances to pay for a visit to a Japanese bath house and to go a Northbridge strip club.
