Ian Macdonald
Obeids, Macdonald urge court to quash convictions
The former NSW Labor MPs and Eddie Obeid’s son deny plotting together to commit a crime over a lucrative coal licence.
- Michaela Whitbourn
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Ian Macdonald: a rorter for the ages
Over 50 years the former NSW Labor mining minister Ian Macdonald’s penchant for corruption to advance his own interests grew to alarming levels.
- Kate McClymont
Ian Macdonald guilty of misconduct over coal licence, ex union boss acquitted
The jailed former NSW mining minister is facing a fresh prison sentence after being found guilty of offences relating to a Hunter Valley coal licence.
- Michaela Whitbourn
Former NSW Labor minister denies improper deal over coal licence
Ian Macdonald denies he had an improper purpose or motive in giving a coal licence to a company chaired by a former union boss.
- Greta Stonehouse
Former NSW mining minister cost state up to $100 million, trial told
Ian Macdonald and former CFMEU boss John Maitland are facing a retrial over a coal exploration licence given without a tender to a company linked to Maitland.
- Michaela Whitbourn
Eddie and Moses Obeid, Ian Macdonald to remain behind bars ahead of appeal
Despite “real issues to be raised”, the trio have lost their bid for freedom ahead of an appeal against their convictions over a rigged mining licence.
- Jenny Noyes
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Obeid family keeps tainted millions despite Eddie and Moses jail terms
While authorities considered seizing the Obeids’ assets, the Tax Office instead pursued the family not for $30m, just the tax that should have been paid on it.
- Kate McClymont
Eddie Obeid bailed over COVID fears minutes after being sentenced to three years’ jail
Eddie Obeid, his son Moses, and Ian Macdonald all received jail sentences on Thursday but Eddie Obeid received bail amid concerns over him contracting COVID.
- Kate McClymont
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- Greg Jones
Businessman Jones banks on Nile’s bill to bail him out of bankruptcy
In court this week in an attempt to fend off another bankruptcy action, this time over unpaid school fees, Jones assures his bankruptcy trustee he will be back in the money.
- Kate McClymont
Public shaming should mean less jail for Moses Obeid, court hears
Moses Obeid “could be dead by the end of the year” if he was sent to jail while Covid-19 was in the NSW prison system, his barrister told court.
- Kate McClymont
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