Labour MP Jim Devine speaks to the media outside his home in Blackburn, Scotland February 5, 2010. British state prosecutors charged four legislators on Friday with false accounting over alleged abuses of the parliamentary expenses system. He named the four as Elliot Morley, David Chaytor and Jim Devine, who are Labour members of the lower House of Commons, and Paul White, known as Lord Hanningfield, a Conservative member of the upper House of Lords. Reuters Pictures logo Reuters Pictures 24 months ago

Labour MP Jim Devine speaks to the media outside his home in Blackburn, Scotland February 5, 2010. British state prosecutors charged four legislators on Friday with false accounting over alleged abuses of the parliamentary expenses system. He named the four as Elliot Morley, David Chaytor and Jim Devine, who are Labour members of the lower House of Commons, and Paul White, known as Lord Hanningfield, a Conservative member of the upper House of Lords.