Counsel for former Labor minister Eddie Obeid tells court he should receive no more than a two-year sentence,to be served at home.
Nothing but full-time imprisonment would suffice for former NSW Labor ministers Ian Macdonald and Eddie Obeid and Obeid’s son Moses,the NSW Supreme Court heard.
But Australia’s strict two-week quarantine rules and Sydney’s ongoing lockdown meant there were no real A-listers prepared to commit.
Despite claims they are an unacceptable flight risk,convicted former Labor ministers Ian Macdonald and Eddie Obeid,and Obeid’s son Moses,have been granted bail.
Some would restrain it if they could,but NSW needs a robust the anti-corruption body.
Meanwhile,if solicitor John Gerathy had appeared at ICAC in 2012,he might have answered an enduring question:given the Obeids were to receive $60 million,what was in it for Ian Macdonald?
Eddie Obeid,Ian Macdonald and Moses Obeid were found guilty over a rigged coal exploration tender that resulted in the Obeid family receiving a $30m windfall.
Former Labor minister Eddie Obeid set to return to prison after guilty finding over his role in a rigged tender which delivered his family $30 million windfall.
Stories of businesspeople bold,colourful,generous and ruthless have appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald for 190 years. They’re moguls who would shape the city’s history and,indeed,the history of the Herald itself.
The mayor of Inner West Council dissects the NSW party’s 10 years of lost chances and offers a plan for rebuilding faith in Labor as an alternative government.
Judge thanked the parties for the “considerable work” in the trial in which 38 witnesses appeared and more than 6000 pages of exhibits were tendered.