Breaking: Eddie Obeid has walked out of Silverwater jail after serving three years behind bars. He is expected to head home to the family's Hunters Hill colonial mansion
Obeid, his middle son Moses and Mr Macdonald, the former NSW Labor mining minister, are facing conspiracy charges relating to a 2009 decision by Mr Macdonald to grant a lucrative coal-exploration licence over the Obeid family's farm at Mount Penny in the Bylong Valley.with regard to the license, but his criminal trial on the same subject is only set to commence in February.
Mr McDonald was separately convicted in 2017 over the allocation of a mining license to Doyles Creek Mining, a company chaired by former union boss John Maitland. That conviction was set aside earlier this year and a retrial ordered after Mr Macdonald and Mr Maitland appealed. Mr McDonald is on bail while he waits for that trial to begin.
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