Would this be Baroness Udin, Sirprize? If so, I think she was investigated by the standards committee and has been asked to repay £120,000.
Totally agree with you that some of the MPs and Lords totally abused the system, some very creatively.
I am sure I read somewhere that one reason that the expenses system was so lacking in audits and checks was because it was felt that MPs and Lords were more honourable than your average citizen, and that therefore to audit them represented a kind of insult!
I just find it disappointing that, despite evidence of wide-spread abuse of the previous system, the newly imposed and stricter system seems to have found very little in the way of savings on the expenses budget.....