Distressed daughter slams Victorian Labor over fruitless branch stacking probe

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Mary Nigro had a feeling Victorian Labor's branch stacking probe would not track down the person responsible for forging her dead father's signature. She was right.

One of the families at the centre of a Victorian Labor branch stacking scandal has criticised the party over its fruitless investigationThe family is considering legal action and the Victorian opposition is calling for another investigation

The distressed daughter said on Saturday she was considering legal action against Labor after its own investigation, made public on Friday, failed to find out who renewed her dead father's party membership."I really want to find who's behind all of this and what really happened." Acting Labor state secretary Cameron Petrie has apologised to the families of the two dead men for distress and hurt caused by the renewal of their memberships."But they've stopped the investigation and everyone's basically washed their hands of it and said, 'we don't know who's involved'.Tom Donato with a photo of his father, Antonio, who died in 2017 but was re-signed in 2018 and 2019.

"The Labor party has conducted a sham investigation into this branch stacking scandal, whitewashed the results and it's only left the loved ones of the deceased feeling even more aggrieved, when what they deserve is an explanation," Mr Pesutto said.

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