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Not a case of falsely claiming meal/meeting attendees, but Magliocca's been in the news before about comparatively high expense claims. From 2014:

Dining on taxpayers’ dime offers councillors food for thought

Jason Markusoff, Calgary Herald 08.10.2014

Since joining council last fall, Joe Magliocca has often said he wants to find savings and “trim the fat” at City Hall.

He has also billed taxpayers $350 for espresso-making equipment and expensed several meals at upscale restaurants, including one lunch that was more expensive than his new office Nespresso machine.

At Kensington’s Osteria de Medici, Magliocca laid down his corporate MasterCard in January for a $398 chef’s special off-the-menu lunch shared by five people, including himself. The table was never shown prices for the antipasti, angel hair pasta, veal parmigiana and more.

It’s by far the priciest meal that any of Calgary’s 14 city councillors expensed in the first half of 2014, according to expense disclosures.

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At the Magliocca meal that cost almost $400 last January, Airdrie Mayor Peter Brown was one of the guests.

“I can tell you the food was awesome. But I can tell you we don’t talk about the price,” recalled Brown, who sat at the table with Magliocca, an executive from suburban builder Shane Homes, another guest whose name the city councillor said he can’t recall and, for part of the afternoon, the restaurant owner’s son.

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Asked in an interview about the meal and his views on taxes and spending, the northwest councillor said it was his first time, and he didn’t expect media attention for it.
“You can chalk it up to a rookie mistake, probably,” he said. “Next time, I’m going to pay it out of my own pocket, even if I’m doing business, and that’s sad, isn’t it?”

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Magliocca has long had an affinity for Osteria de Medici, which bills itself as a “premier fine dining establishment” that has fed celebrities such as Luciano Pavarotti, Tom Selleck, Kevin Costner and ex-U.S. president George W. Bush. The councillor hosted two campaign fundraisers there last year — one a jazz night and another he promoted on Twitter as offering scotch, cigars and an “exquisite three-course Italian dinner” for $125 a head.

Regarding Magliocca’s espresso maker, there is a single-serve coffee and espresso maker in the councillors’ common area, so Magliocca’s $350 expense shouldn’t have been approved, said Jones, the longest-serving ward representative.

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Magliocca, a sales executive in the charter airline business, said several councillors’ aides use his machine, and he serves guests with it. He’s not fond of the public machine, which he believed only makes regular coffee. “I don’t drink that stuff.”

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/po...777/story.html