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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/exmp-fiddled-stationary-orders.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Former Labour MP Jim Devine arrives at Southwark Crown Court, where he denies fiddling his parliamentary expenses" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-exmp-fiddled-stationary-orders.jpg" alt="Former Labour MP Jim Devine arrives at Southwark Crown Court, where he denies fiddling his parliamentary expenses"/></a></p>
<p>A former Labour MP accused of fiddling his parliamentary expenses asked a stationery company to confirm he had paid for orders when he never did so, a jury has been told.</p>
<p>Jim Devine allegedly requested that invoices be stamped to say money had been &#8220;received with thanks&#8221; before the orders were paid for.</p>
<p>The 57-year-old, who was MP for Livingston, is on trial at London&#8217;s Southwark Crown Court accused of falsely claiming almost £9,000 from the public purse.</p>
<p>Jennifer McCrea, the retired secretary of Armstrong Printing Limited in Clackmannanshire, said on one occasion Devine said his request was &#8220;a matter of urgency&#8221;.</p>
<p>She said customers often asked for an invoice to be &#8220;receipted&#8221;, as confirmation a payment had been made. This was indicated on the paperwork by the words &#8220;received with thanks&#8221; being stamped on it. But she said Devine made his request before any money was paid or the printing job was done.</p>
<p>She told the court about a telephone conversation the former Labour MP, who had an account at the firm, made to her in March 2009.</p>
<p>&#8220;He was asking for an invoice for future work,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He asked for it to be made out for around £2,400. There was no detail for what actually was going to be printed.</p>
<p>&#8220;He asked for it to be receipted. If someone asks for a receipted invoice they want acknowledgement that that particular invoice has been paid.&#8221;</p>
<p>She said she could not process his request, so passed it on to the company director, Billy Lochie.</p>
<p>Devine, of West Main Street, Bathgate, West Lothian, denies two charges of false accounting.</p>
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