The mayor of London, Ont., has been charged by the RCMP with fraud following an investigation into allegations that he misused public funds in 2005 when he was a federal cabinet minister and Liberal member of Parliament.

The force issued a news release Wednesday saying Joe Fontana has been charged with fraud under $5,000, breach of trust by a public official and uttering forged documents. In the Criminal Code of Canada, anyone who uses, deals with or acts on a document they know is forged or causes another person to do so is acting against the law.

A London Free Press article, published in October, alleged that the former federal cabinet minister used more than $20,000 in cheques from Public Works Canada to help pay for his son's wedding reception in 2005. Fontana was the Liberal MP for London North Centre at the time.

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