Peter Murrell, the former Chief Executive of the Scottish National Party, pled guilty earlier this week to embezzling more than £400,000 of party funds.
Mr Murrell is the estranged husband of former first minister and leader of the SNP Nicola Sturgeon.
Ms Sturgeon has denied all knowledge of Murrell's wrongdoing.
Ahead of the trial, the authorities released a list of purchases made by Mr Murrell which included a Jaguar car, gaming consoles and coffee machines.
Political commentator Brian Taylor told Behind the Story that the goods Mr Murrell bought ranged from hand cream to a camper van.
"It’s an incredible fall from grace," he said.
"Now the complaints are what did Nicola Sturgeon know, why didn’t she know?
"These questions are continuing to be asked even after that guilty plea on Monday."
Mr Taylor said the situation is a headache for the SNP’s current leader John Swinney.
"I think it’s a huge problem for Mr Swinney," he said.
"I think it is survivable, just, for a couple of reasons – he looked shellshocked, frankly, when he appeared at a news conference.
"He was saying that he was betrayed and that he was a victim as much as anyone else and that he had given substantial donations to the party.
"This is the argument he is adducing: that the party and himself are the victims."
Mr Taylor said while the SNP took 58 seats in recent 7 May elections, "at that time, the full details of Mr Murrell’s quite remarkable career in crookedness were not known".
'Anti-establishment politics’
He also says that Reform UK, led by Nigel Farage, is gaining ground in Scotland – having taken 17 seats at Holyrood in the same elections.
"They try and depict themselves as being anti-establishment politics," Mr Taylor explained.
"That is potentially appealing to a section of the Scottish public who are sick of politics as currently practiced.
"The SNP have been in devolved government in Scotland for some 20 years – and that means to that extent they are part of the establishment."
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