Former Labor ministers found to be corrupt: ICAC

[nero_bolt]

Ian Macdonald, Eddie Obeid facing charges after being found by ICAC to have acted corruptly

FORMER NSW Labor powerbroker Eddie Obeid and former mining minister Ian Macdonald have been found by the NSW ICAC to have acted corruptly and referred for possible criminal charges.

The long-running Independent Commission Against Corruption inquiry has also made corruption findings against Mr Obeid's son Moses.

The findings follow six months of sensational hearings and more than 150 witnesses.

ICAC has found the one-time head of the powerful Labor right faction Mr Obeid and his son Moses acted corruptly in the process of obtaining and selling a mining exploration licence on their property.

ICAC today tabled its report into three investigations that ran over a six month-period, finding corruption reached some of the highest levels in both the right and left of the NSW Labor Party.

The ICAC also found that senior mining executives Travers Duncan and John McGuigan acted corruptly, as did well known business figure John Kinghorn.

The NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption has found that Ian Macdonald, The Hon Edward Obeid MLC (Edward Obeid Sr), Moses Obeid, Travers Duncan, John McGuigan, John Atkinson, John Kinghorn and Richard Poole engaged in corrupt conduct in relation to their action involving the Mount Penny mining tenement in the Bylong Valley,” it said.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/state-politics/ian-macdonald-eddie-obeid-facing-cha...

[spotweldersfriend]

Howard's not 50 years ago.War crimes are forever.

[not_an_eloi]

i'll slam one back at nero, any time nero corrupts the topic headin' to suit nero's corrupt agenda.

actions of a couple of characters are not representative of the whole party

[pct001wine]

How 'bout getting flown around the place by the company that will benefit from liberal policy ? 

[spotweldersfriend]

Here's a few more for nero to ponder.
These are just some under Howard.
Small business minister Geoff Prosser was running 3 shopping centres while minister and forced to resign.
Resources minister Warwick Parer had a massive shareholding in a coal mine.
John Howard- one word- Manildra
Parliamentary sec. Warren Entsch's concrete company won a massive government contract in breach of regulations
Helen Coonan.Minister for Revenue avoided paying land tax
Parliamentary Sec. Bob Woods retired when under police investigation for travel rorts
Parliamentary Sec. Bill Heffernan was forced ti resign over fabricated claims against a high court judge .
Massive pork-barrelling of the $1 billion Federation Fund program
Peter Reiths telecard affair plus his short stay as defense minister before taking a consultancy position with defense contractor Tenix
The damning report by the Auditor-General of the governments spending of public money on government advertising in the lead up to 3 elections.
Selective amnesia nero?

[polocross58]

No wonder the crooks are laughing

No wonder the corruption is ceaseless

No wonder ICAC is a laughing stock, seeing it's paid by the very government it's supposed to investigate

No bloody wonder

When people on ebay are so willing to leap to the defence of the corrupt

[lurker17260]

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@polocross58 wrote:

No wonder the crooks are laughing

No wonder the corruption is ceaseless

No wonder ICAC is a laughing stock, seeing it's paid by the very government it's supposed to investigate

No bloody wonder

When people on ebay are so willing to leap to the defence of the corrupt

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Who's leaping to anyone's defence?

And yes Obeid and Macdonald are corrupt and should be dealt with accordingly.

o'course they should

Did you miss those bits?

[kilroy_is_here]

Pity that's not true as then we would at least get to see scantily clad women running around grunting .

This is more like the pointless trench warfare of the First World War , were both side just keep throwing bombs at each other with neither side really gaining ground

[carls*world]

Bottom line. Politics is, and has been for a very long time, corrupt.

Would take a very naive individual to think the majority of them are in the game for the benifit of the nation. There's always been the odd honest pot stirrer, but they are easily and quickly silenced by the duopoly.

[freakiness]

Premier from 1968 - 1987 is hardly the 60s.

Criminal charges were in the 90s not 60s.

Kick Obeid if you like but most members of Labor party like most members of Liberal party are not corrupt.

Abbott gave character reference for paedophile priests. Does that make all LINP members corrupt paedophiles? No, of course not.