Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
“The Government was concerned about the idea of building a commercial property for a private company weren’t they Mr Maguire” the witness is asked. “Governments are funny about that sort of thing” Maguire replies. Strange that. Maguire admits again under questioning that he advised both the Clay Target Shooting Association and the Riverina Con to […]
We were wrong yesterday when we wrote that the phones of Jack Trainor, Jack Brown and James McPherson were seized after the last race. They were in fact seized before the first. HRNSW Stewards told the licensees – including the 17-year-old Brown (we said yesterday he was 16; we are advised that he recently had […]
Daryl arranges a dinner with the Premier and the Treasurer. A bloke named Mangelsdorf or something similar came. He was a big wheel businessman in Wagga. ‘A success story’ Maguire describes him as. Leong the bloke who is building the industrial estate at Menangle was on the invitation list. Maguire says he didn’t attend. Phone […]
Daryl says that in 2015 he was not lobbying Gladys directly over the $20 million funding for the Con, simply communicating with her through formal channels. We go to the next year and a letter is produced showing direct communication with Gladys, who has just become Premier. Maguire is asked whether he is now lobbying […]
Gateway International is a company that bought the goods, equipment and furniture for the Conservatorium (we will call it the con for brevity, and because its apt). Counsel Assisting the Commission asks Maguire if he was a director of the company. “Not a formal director” Maguire replied. “I gave advice”. In other words he had […]
We move forward 6 months. Daryl has given an interview with the local paper in which he says heavy hitters in Government are impressed by the projected public return of $2.80 for every $1 spent on the project. The Commission asks him how he came up with the figure of $2.80 returned for every $1 […]
The Commission resumes. At the end of 2016 a decision is made by Minister Ayres to approve $5.5 million for the Clay Target project. Maguire says it was Mike Baird who was the principal decision maker. It seems the approvals were all given over what would usually be the Xmas break. Daryl admits that he […]
Even sitting there in front of the world exposed as a corrupt pollie who took criminal backhanders, and as a love rat who is selling the woman he claims to have been going to marry down the river and potentially into a jail cell, Daryl Maguire remains madly pompous and egotistical. He is trying to […]
Questioning switches back to the Clay Target Shooting Association. Daryl says that he supported the project. He was a big fan of all shooting he says. I bet Gladys wishes he’d shot himself. A 2012 letter from Daryl to former rugby league ref turned Sports Minister Graham Annesley about the Clay Target project is read […]
Counsel assisting the Commissioner suddenly switches course. He is now about to ask Maguire intimate details about his relationship with Gladys. Her lawyers argued behind closed doors for two hours to try to have these questions asked behind closed doors. The Commissioner said no. Maguire is being taken through his previous ICAC evidence about the […]
