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Taylor Auerbach leaves Federal Court with his lawyer Rebekah Giles after giving evidence in the Bruce Lehrmann defamation case in Sydney in April.

Former Seven producer Taylor Auerbach lands legal gig

Auerbach, of Bruce Lehrmann trial fame, has been hired as a paralegal by his lawyer, prominent defamation solicitor Rebekah Giles.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Madeleine Heffernan

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Police arrested a Sydney accountant on May 13 over alleged fraud and money laundering on behalf of organised crime network members.

Accountant charged with laundering money for senior crime figure

The accountant facilitated money laundering and fraud on behalf of members of the Alameddine organised crime network, police will allege.

  • Josefine Ganko and Perry Duffin
Police claim a tobacco heist at Condell Park turned into a violent kidnapping where Alameddine associates cut the toe off a captive while stealing a tonne of black market product.

Tobacco and toe-cutting: The black market driving gang violence

Black market tobacco “rips” are fuelling gang violence in Sydney. Court files show the way brutal tactics are used to secure market dominance.

  • Perry Duffin
Daryl Maguire faces a maximum penalty of two years’ imprisonment.

Daryl Maguire found guilty of misleading corruption watchdog

The former Liberal MP is facing up to two years in jail after being found guilty of giving misleading evidence to the Independent Commission Against Corruption.

  • Amber Schultz
Samimjan Azari shields himself with a chair as the gunman opens fire in the Turkish restaurant.

Gangster has survived four murder plots: How Samimjan Azari became Sydney’s most marked man

For years, Azari has worked his way up the pecking order of the notorious Alameddine crime network. It could cost him his life.

  • Riley Walter, Perry Duffin and Sally Rawsthorne
Tegan Wagner, pictured in 2006, during the trial of the Pakistani gang rapist brothers.

‘Anonymity is not acceptable’: Gang rape survivor calls for alleged offenders to be unmasked

Tegan Wagner survived a gang rape in 2002. She says despite their age, the alleged teenage perpetrators of a recent attack in Sydney’s south-west should be identified.

  • Amber Schultz
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Sydney’s Downing Centre court complex.

Trials set to be aborted amid damage to NSW’s busiest court complex

Sydney’s Downing Centre court complex is expected to be shut for at least four weeks after a burst water main caused flood damage to part of the building.

  • Michaela Whitbourn
Gina Edwards and Oscar the cavoodle after she won her defamation case against Nine.

ABC makes cameo appearance in celebrity cavoodle legal drama

Journalists from the public broadcaster’s investigations team won access to documents related to an ongoing legal stoush involving the “million-dollar” dog.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
Paul Kevin Bennetts leaves the Downing Centre Local Court in late May. He is accused of domestic violence against a former partner.

Start-up boss to face trial for kidnapping, domestic violence

Paul Kevin Bennetts promised to transform the fortunes of Millennials, but behind closed doors, he allegedly stalked and abused a young woman.

  • Perry Duffin and Sally Rawsthorne
Alleged Alameddine crime network boss Ali Elmoubayed arrives at Parramatta Local Court.

‘You should play lotto’: Alleged gangland boss’ lucky escape from brazen shooting

The man police allege is the head of the notorious Alameddine crime network in Australia evaded, by five minutes, the attack on his Sydney home.

  • Riley Walter

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