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In the underworld, secrets that don’t stay secret can get you killed or locked up. Yet cunning criminals who would hardly trust their mothers, mostly trust lawyers the way churchgoers used to trust priests. At least, that’s the way it was until Lawyer X torched the rule book with a string of betrayals, writes Andrew Rule.
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Victoria Police recruited other lawyers, apart from Lawyer X, as informers, including mafia defender Joe Acquaro who was providing information to the Purana taskforce before he was killed in a hail of bullets.
How time validated gangland lawyer’s hunch
A panicked late night call is the lot of defence lawyers. So when Zarah Garde-Wilson received one from an 18-year-old picked up in a Mokbel drug sting she duly turned up at St Kilda Rd police station. The ritual took an odd turn when Lawyer X showed with “bad advice”.
Lawyer X played system like ‘phenomenal game of chess’
Insiders close to the “human source” unit, which took reports from Lawyer X, have painted the barrister as a “manipulative mastermind” who ran rings around both them and the criminals she was supposed to represent.
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Jailed Calabrian mafia boss Frank Madafferi intends to base a last attempt to overturn his conviction over Australia’s biggest ecstasy seizure on the Lawyer X informer scandal.
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Last drinks for drug lord before arrests
It was a who’s who of Melbourne’s underworld, a birthday bash for Tony Mokbel’s drug cook, a kind of real-life Walter White before the TV character’s time. The cook celebrated with 80 to 100 of his closest friends, including Lawyer X.
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