Breaking: Former NSW Labor ministers Eddie Obeid, Joe Tripodi and Tony Kelly have been hit with criminal charges flowing from an ICAC investigation | Kate_McClymont MWhitbourn
to a minimum of three years and 10 months for his role in conspiring to commit wilful misconduct in public office in relation to a lucrative coal exploration licence over the Obeid family farm in the Bylong Valley. He has previously served three years behind bars for misconduct in public office relating to separate business dealings in Circular Quay.
The commission found the Obeid family agreed in 2010 to buy a secret $3 million stake in AWH, despite their claims the money was advanced as a loan. The inquiry heard the family stood to make up to $60 million if the government entered into a partnership with AWH. The commission found Kelly, Brown and Tripodi misused their public office with the intention of benefiting Obeid by preparing a “deceptive” cabinet minute in 2010 to support the AWH proposal.
He also deleted facts that showed that the publicly-owned Sydney Water would be hundreds of millions of dollars worse off if the proposed public-private partnership deal was accepted.But Tripodi denied any involvement in the doctored cabinet minute. He claimed he had merely given Kelly’s staff some draft notes he had from his time as minister. Tripodi also claimed that he had no idea that the Obeids had an interest in AWH.
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