Former cabinet minister Chris Huhne and his ex-wife Vicky Pryce are due to be sentenced for perverting the course of justice.
They were both convicted after she took speeding points for him following an incident on the M11 in 2003.
Huhne resigned as the Liberal Democrat MP for Eastleigh in Hampshire after admitting the charge.
Pryce, who had claimed the defence of marital coercion, was found guilty at Southwark Crown Court last week.
'Inevitable consequences'The Pryce verdict, after 12 hours of deliberations, came in a retrial.
The judge, Mr Justice Sweeney, warned the pair faced jail and the Crown Prosecution Service said it would try to recover costs.
The judge said: "Obviously Ms Pryce was present when I indicated to Mr Huhne the inevitable consequences of a conviction for an offence of this sort."
Speaking outside court, Pryce's solicitor Robert Brown said his client would not be making any comment until after sentencing took place.
The CPS is understood to have run up about £100,000 in costs after Huhne attempted to have the prosecution against him thrown out before the trial began.
CPS lawyer Malcolm McHaffie said: "Chris Huhne made sustained challenges against the prosecution before pleading guilty at the last minute. This was expensive for the CPS and we will be applying for costs."
Affair with aideHuhne and Pryce were charged last year over an incident in March 2003 when Huhne's BMW car was caught by a speed camera on the M11 between Stansted Airport in Essex and London. He was an MEP at the time.
It was alleged that between 12 March and 21 May 2003, Pryce, a prominent economist, had falsely informed police she had been the driver of the car, so Huhne would avoid prosecution.
He was in danger of losing his licence having already accrued nine penalty points.
The prosecution alleged that Pryce, from Clapham in south London, had chosen to take the points but later plotted to expose Huhne after he revealed he was having an affair with an aide and ended the couple's 26-year marriage.
The court was told Pryce later told Sunday Times journalist Isabel Oakeshott what the couple had done and was persuaded that a carefully written story could expose the politician.
The Eastleigh by-election caused by Huhne's resignation was won by Liberal Democrat candidate Mike Thornton with a reduced share of the vote, ahead of the UK Independence Party in second, on 28 February.
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