A "shameful" former WA politician has been given a 10-month suspended jail term and fined $20,000 for hindering a corruption investigation, which found he had improperly used taxpayer funds to pay for personal expenses, including visits to a strip club and Japanese bath house.
Brian Ellis, a member of Western Australia's Legislative Council for a decade, pleaded guilty to two charges arising from the secret 2019 Corruption and Crime Commission (CCC) investigation into the misuse of electoral allowances.
