Joe Fontana in London, Ont., on June 13, 2014. Photo: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Dave Chidley LONDON, Ont. — Joe Fontana, the former mayor of London, Ont., has received a four-month conditional sentence under house arrest and 18 months probation for fraud-related offences from his time as a federal Liberal cabinet minister.
Fontana, 64, resigned last month as mayor after an Ontario Superior Court judge found he forged an expense document in 2005 that resulted in a $1,700 government fraud.
The Crown had called for Fontana to spend four to six months in jail.
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