28-04-2015 04:09 PM - edited 28-04-2015 04:10 PM
Former prime minister Julia Gillard is facing further scrutiny of her role in helping to set up a fraudulent union slush fund as Victorian police prepare to charge a key player in the saga.
A senior Victoria Police detective has told self-confessed AWU bagman and fraudster Ralph Blewitt that he will very soon be criminally charged over his role in the union slush fund set up with Ms Gillard’s legal advice.
Mr Blewitt said yesterday he intended to plead not guilty and would instruct his lawyers to subpoena witnesses, including Ms Gillard, to give evidence under oath.
Detective Sergeant Ross Mitchell of the Fraud Squad, who has been leading the two-year investigation, which provided key evidence to the ongoing royal commission into union graft, has told Mr Blewitt that at least two charges will be levelled in Victoria.
Mr Blewitt, who has admitted his involvement in fraud with his friend and former union boss Bruce Wilson, and their slush fund, the Australian Workers Union Workplace Reform Association, yesterday said he understood others would be charged
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prosecution for multiple fraud-related offences [and] criticised Ms Gillard’s determination to deny under oath that thousands of dollars — “wads of notes” — were handed to her by Mr Wilson during the renovation of her Melbourne home, as witnessed by a builder, Athol James. Another witness, Wayne Hem, was also found to be truthful about $5000 being deposited in her bank account.
Gillard denies any suggestion of wrongdoing.
Oh dear. Memory loss in one so young is a sad thing 😞
29-04-2015 08:19 PM - edited 29-04-2015 08:21 PM
on 29-04-2015 08:22 PM
@debra9275 wrote:
Yes that's one within her own party. Did you google captains' picks? 😀 Google it again and tell me how many your favourite politician Tony has made
so you concede she is the kind of gal that makes captains picks?
on 29-04-2015 08:23 PM
on 29-04-2015 08:24 PM
on 29-04-2015 08:27 PM
@debra9275 wrote:
No I don't concede that she's the type to make captains picks when she's only made one that I know of. Tony on the other hand..... Well. He's the captain 🙂
and so was she in her day. 🙂
on 29-04-2015 08:29 PM
on 29-04-2015 10:43 PM
Oh so it's quantity that makes a captain, not quality?
on 29-04-2015 10:48 PM
on 29-04-2015 10:53 PM
@the_great_she_elephant wrote:
@icyfroth wrote:Oh so it's quantity that makes a captain, not quality?
No it's quality that makes a good captain.
so one captains pick is all it takes to make a quality leader?
on 30-04-2015 10:31 AM
Who will ever forget the staged mobs of Labor women and the bunches of flowers they paraded everyday outside the hearing whilst Carmen talked and talked and talked intill she talked them all into a stupor.