Police won’t complete AWU case before Gillard goes to polls

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Will she be the first PM or in this case EX PM ever charged with major criminal charges.... 

Mark Baker of The Age - not the satanic Murdoch media:

Victoria Police will seek to use documents taken from prominent law firm Slater & Gordon in framing ...

But sources close to one of the biggest Victorian fraud investigations in recent years said it appeared unlikely any charges would be laid before the end of this year, well after the September 14 federal election.

The investigation focuses on the 1993 purchase of a Fitzroy house involving some of the hundreds of thousands of dollars allegedly misappropriated from the AWU Workplace Reform Association by former senior AWU official Bruce Wilson, who was then the boyfriend of Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

Ms Gillard, then a partner at Slater & Gordon, gave legal advice in relation to establishing the association - ostensibly for promoting work safety and training - which she later confirmed to be a ‘’slush fund’’ to bankroll union elections.

She later created a power of attorney to enable Mr Wilson to buy the property in Kerr Street, Fitzroy, in the name of union crony Ralph Blewitt.

Mr Blewitt has confirmed in a statement to police that he was involved in fraud but both Ms Gillard and Mr Wilson have vehemently denied any illegal or improper conduct.

Voters deserve to knew before the election whether the Prime Minister has a legal case to answer. But I accept Victoria Police is letting the investigation follow its natural course. Indeed, we have to applaud the determination of the police to get to the bottom of this matter, given the political sensitivities involved - sensitivities that have already cost the jobs of two journalists to whom apologies are surely owed.

http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/andrewbolt/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/police_wont_complete_awu_case_before_gillard_goes_to_polls/

plus

Gillard at the centre of biggest Victorian Fraud investigation in years

http://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2013/06/gillard-at-the-centre-of-biggest-victorian-fraud-investigations-in-years.html

[lightningdance]

 What she needs to do is apologise to the Australian people for bringing the office of the PM into disrepute.

Then driven out at the Sept election.

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The Legal Services Board of Victoria has confirmed that   police are investigating Slater and Gordon lawyers over the AWU scandal.

(Julia Gillard insists she did nothing wrong as a Slater and Gordon lawyer in regard to the AWU scandal involving her then boyfriend.)

Michael Smith had complained to Board about the actions of lawyers at Slater and Gordon.

The Board told Smith it had commenced investigations, but now has told him those investigations have been put on ice.

The Legal Services Board of Victoria confirmed its investigation “falls within the scope of an ongoing investigation being conducted by Victoria Police” and to “avoid duplication of effort” and interference it would allow the police criminal enquiry to take precedence.

Read the correspondence here.

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Will we ever be told the truth? not from Gillard we won't, truth is a stranger to her.

I do hope they get to the bottom of it. I wonder if they are hanging off because she's the PM, are just waiting untill she's finished lying to us then conceding.