Tokyo court fines ex-ruling LDP lawmaker in 1st slush fund ruling for politician

A Tokyo court on Tuesday found a former lawmaker of Japan's governing party and his then secretary guilty of false reporting under the political funds law, the first ruling against a politician serving when a high-profile slush fund scandal broke.The Tokyo District Court fined Yasutada Ono, a former House of Councillors lawmaker for the Liberal Democratic Party, 600,000 yen ($3,700) and his former policy secretary Yoshiko Iwata, 200,000 yen, far less than the amounts sought by prosecutors, after the two were found guilty of false reporting in just one of the five years covered by the indict…READ FULL ARTICLE