Justice Lisa Cameron has sentenced Dean Del Mastro, the
former Conservative MP for Peterborough, to thirty days in jail for
overspending about $20,000 on his 2008 election campaign.
(Scroll down for video footage by Pamela VanMeer).
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Del Mastro was optimistic at first |
Del Mastro, 44, had already been found guilty on three
counts of election fraud related to overspending, both on his personal and his
campaign limit. The jail sentence is for the first two counts – each of 30 days, to be served concurrently, (i.e. both at the same time, as opposed to consecutively, which would have been 60 days).
After Del Mastro is released, he is to serve four months of
house arrest, and will be on probation for an additional 18 months. He also has
to pay back $10,000 that Cameron has determined he owed to his riding association.
Cameron delivered an even-handed yet withering assessment of
Del Mastro’s crimes.