The trio,convicted in October over a rigged tender,are fighting to get out of jail ahead of an appeal likely to be heard next year.
Gerard Obeid was touting the development potential of a beachfront street years before a man known to his family bought up next door.
Corruption really does have a stench.
Trust in government,meanwhile,is taking a battering - and Christian Porter’s Liberal colleagues know it.
The former Labor powerbroker has arrived at Silverwater’s Metropolitan Remand and Reception Centre,where he will begin his sentence of three years and 10 months.
Some of the Obeids’ ill-gotten gains were used to expand the family’s vast property interests,now worth millions and spanning the globe.
Police Minister David Elliott will give the NSW Crime Commission additional powers if needed as it reviews its investigation into the Obeid family’s proceeds of crime.
While authorities considered seizing the Obeids’ assets,the Tax Office instead pursued the family not for $30m,just the tax that should have been paid on it.
Some politicians have still not got the message about the need for transparency and the risk of abuse of public trust.
Eddie Obeid,his son Moses,and Ian Macdonald all received jail sentences on Thursday but Eddie Obeid received bail amid concerns over him contracting COVID.
Moses Obeid “could be dead by the end of the year” if he was sent to jail while Covid-19 was in the NSW prison system,his barrister told court.