Lying and cheating seems to be the acceptable norm for the Liberal Democrats these days.
Many years ago, longer than I care to remember, I worked as resaerch assistant at a university. I was grateful for the money even if it was not much believing it work benefiting the status of the university.
I was paid with tax deducted at source so it was all legal and above board. However, it turned out that the professor through whom I got the work, was paying me £30 per day for work for which he was charging £1000!
The material at times was sent via me to the client directly so high was my quality record.
When I discovered this and asked for correction, I was told that I could take it or lump it there is nothing that I could do.
I thought fine I will put it down to experience. It was years later that I learned that the learned professor was giving me a bad reference with accusations of theft and embezzlement to cover up what he had done.
He is in the house of lords with the liberal democrats at present!