Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2013 11:18:04 GMT 10
... no wonder the lefties here totally ignore these news articles - almost as though they don't exist.
Yet they couldn't help themselves when it came to Cory Bernardi who in their opinion is a thousand times worse than any corrupt LABOR politician. Or especially their paedophile pollies who are so prevalent in LABOR ranks.
With 14 bank accounts, the cash kept rolling in for Ian Macdonald
Former NSW Labour Minister Ian McDonald leaving the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) inquiry / Pic: Justin Lloyd Source:
The Daily Telegraph
Amy Dale and Vanda Carson
The Daily Telegraph
February 14, 2013 12:00AM
The financial details have emerged as ICAC digs deeper into allegations of a "criminal conspiracy", that Mr Macdonald is "a crook" and that he rigged a tender process for coal mining exploration licences to benefit his former Labor colleague Eddie Obeid, whose family owned land around Mt Penny, where a critical coal tenement was created.
ICAC alleges Mr Macdonald was due to receive a cut of the $486 million sale of Cascade Coal to White Energy - which eventually collapsed after suspicion surfaced about the Obeids' involvement in the mining venture.
Yesterday counsel assisting Geoffrey Watson SC grilled Mr Macdonald about why he had 14 bank accounts - to which he replied he wasn't sure which ones were active.
The payments from Mr Gerathy, which started in September 2010 and continued until last July, ranged from $15,000-$25,000 a month.
ICAC heard there are no statements describing a loan repayment plan - and that a document from Mr Gerathy last year issuing a caveat over Mr Macdonald's $1.2 million Northbridge home was created only days after ICAC investigators ordered the solicitor to produce records of his financial dealings with the former MP.
"The truth is you were going to get a cut out of your dealings with the Obeids weren't you and the only thing that's frustrated that occurring has been the intervention of ICAC, hasn't it?" Mr Watson asked.
"No, that's not right," Mr Macdonald said.
"And at the time (of the White Energy deal) you'd be able to pay Gerathy back his money and you'd be rolling in clover," Mr Watson said.
Mr Macdonald denied this.
In evidence to a closed inquiry, made public yesterday, Mr Gerathy said Mr Jones had told him he would help Macdonald financially in March 2011. "If this (Cascade sale) really comes off I will give Ian a hand," Mr Jones is alleged to have told Mr Gerathy.
Mr Watson alleged the "hand" Jones was referring to was to give Macdonald cash.
Mr Macdonald said Jones was merely referring to finding him a job.
UNION/LABOR ... totally corrupt from the PM down.
Yet they couldn't help themselves when it came to Cory Bernardi who in their opinion is a thousand times worse than any corrupt LABOR politician. Or especially their paedophile pollies who are so prevalent in LABOR ranks.
With 14 bank accounts, the cash kept rolling in for Ian Macdonald
Former NSW Labour Minister Ian McDonald leaving the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) inquiry / Pic: Justin Lloyd Source:
The Daily Telegraph
Amy Dale and Vanda Carson
The Daily Telegraph
February 14, 2013 12:00AM
The financial details have emerged as ICAC digs deeper into allegations of a "criminal conspiracy", that Mr Macdonald is "a crook" and that he rigged a tender process for coal mining exploration licences to benefit his former Labor colleague Eddie Obeid, whose family owned land around Mt Penny, where a critical coal tenement was created.
ICAC alleges Mr Macdonald was due to receive a cut of the $486 million sale of Cascade Coal to White Energy - which eventually collapsed after suspicion surfaced about the Obeids' involvement in the mining venture.
Yesterday counsel assisting Geoffrey Watson SC grilled Mr Macdonald about why he had 14 bank accounts - to which he replied he wasn't sure which ones were active.
The payments from Mr Gerathy, which started in September 2010 and continued until last July, ranged from $15,000-$25,000 a month.
ICAC heard there are no statements describing a loan repayment plan - and that a document from Mr Gerathy last year issuing a caveat over Mr Macdonald's $1.2 million Northbridge home was created only days after ICAC investigators ordered the solicitor to produce records of his financial dealings with the former MP.
"The truth is you were going to get a cut out of your dealings with the Obeids weren't you and the only thing that's frustrated that occurring has been the intervention of ICAC, hasn't it?" Mr Watson asked.
"No, that's not right," Mr Macdonald said.
"And at the time (of the White Energy deal) you'd be able to pay Gerathy back his money and you'd be rolling in clover," Mr Watson said.
Mr Macdonald denied this.
In evidence to a closed inquiry, made public yesterday, Mr Gerathy said Mr Jones had told him he would help Macdonald financially in March 2011. "If this (Cascade sale) really comes off I will give Ian a hand," Mr Jones is alleged to have told Mr Gerathy.
Mr Watson alleged the "hand" Jones was referring to was to give Macdonald cash.
Mr Macdonald said Jones was merely referring to finding him a job.
UNION/LABOR ... totally corrupt from the PM down.
