The Snitch: Jon Adgemis sued over unpaid council rates

Which pub boss has more legal dramas coming their way? Lloyd Babb is in line to earn how much? Who’s the famed barrister with one foot out the door? And which court case can proceed now the election is over? The Snitch is here.

Jon Adgemis is due in court over unpaid council rates. Picture: Luis Enrique Ascui

Just when it appeared troubled pub baron Jon Adgemis might be due for a win, a new financial drama has emerged.

In the same week Adgemis kept the administrators at bay with a $500,000 payment it can be revealed he is due in court over unpaid council rates.

According to court records, Adgemis is being pursued by Georges River Council in a civil claim for alleged unpaid rates.

The matter is listed for an “examination” to take place in Waverley Local Court on June 24.

The exact amount is yet to be revealed but it can’t be as bad as Adgemis’ recent problems which have totalled in the mega-millions.

The Local Court only hears civil claims worth up to $75,000.

It continues a disastrous trot for the one time KPMG deal maker who was a frequent fixture on the social scene and was linked to glamorous women like model Cheyenne Tozzi.

Cheyenne Tozzi.

The “Bang & Olufsen” house at Point Piper. Picture: Supplied

Adgemis became a KPMG partner by the time he was 28.

He borrowed huge amounts to go all-in on building a pub empire in quick time only to see it go into a spectacular debt spiral.

Snitch’s colleagues a few pages over last week revealed Adgemis had recently moved out of the $20,000 a week “Bang & Olufsen” house at Point Piper for an apartment in Bondi.

WHAT NOW FOR BABB? 

With former NSW DPP Lloyd Babb SC resigning from his post at the Northern Territory’s top prosecutor on Friday, legal gossip circles were theorising on what he will do when he returns to Sydney.

Former NT Director of Public Prosecutions Lloyd Babb. Picture: Zizi Averill

There were even questions as to whether Babb will need to work.

The 59-year-old served a 10-year stint as the NSW Director of Public Prosecutions, meaning that he qualifies for a decent pension when he turns 60.

According to NSW laws, any DPP that clocks up 10 years is entitled to a fairly decent pension, which at about half a million clams a year, would buy a few lattes.

TEDESCHI SEMI-RETIRED

The barrister who jailed serial killer Ivan Milat and acted on some of Australia’s biggest murder trials has all but hung up his wig.

Mark Tedeschi KC is arguably the state’s best known prosecuting lawyer thanks to his advocacy in an almost five-decade career that resulted in the jailing of some of Australia’s most notorious killers.

Mark Tedeschi KC. Picture: John Grainger

Ivan Milat.

Tedeschi’s scalps include Phuong Ngo, who assassinated NSW MP John Newman, family killer Sef Gonzales, and the man who murdered heart surgeon Victor Chang.

But it seems the lure of life outside the courtroom has tempted Tedeschi into semi-retirement.

He has moved to working on guardianship matters in the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal.

We’re told the rest of the week is dedicated to bushwalking, photography and writing.

TAXING TIMES

One of the state’s biggest alleged tax fraud trials is now set to begin after a barrister on the case did not get elected to the Federal Senate.

Emilija Beljic’s tilt for a Senate seat had some of her legal colleagues in the massive tax fraud trial involving Adrian Meltly and others a bit nervous.

That’s because she was briefed to act in the highly complex case that is expected to run for five months and is due to begin soon.

Had she been successful, the trial would have been delayed while a replacement barrister was brought up to speed on the case.

It made a few of her colleagues on the case a bit nervous as they had blocked out five months of their diary and would have no idea how to fund the end of year European skiing trip if the case fell through.

Luckily for them that won’t be an issue with Ms Beljic unsuccessful in her political bid.