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NSW shadow attorney general admits he introduced friend who made alleged prohibited donations, inquiry hears Icac’s Operation Rosny has heard that hotelier Michael O’Hara, a former business partner of Damien Tudehope from their time as lawyers, met Christian Ellis and Robert Assaf at an event at Tudehope’s home. Under questioning from counsel assisting, Peggy Dwyer SC, Tudehope has accepted that he introduced the men, and he would not have been surprised that O’Hara would be happy to support their factional work financially. But like O’Hara, a prohibited political donor because of his involvement in the liquor industry, who appeared before the commission last week, Tudehope has disputed whether payments to the Reformers would count as political donations. He says: If you think that I would expose a friend of mine to that level of scrutiny that he was exposed to, 83 years of age with stage … four cancer, do you think that I would have done that in circumstances where I knew that he woul.
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NSW shadow attorney general admits he introduced friend who made alleged prohibited donations, inquiry hears Icac’s Operation Rosny has heard that hotelier Michael O’Hara, a former business partner of Damien Tudehope from their time as lawyers, met Christian Ellis and Robert Assaf at an event at Tudehope’s home. Under questioning from counsel assisting, Peggy Dwyer SC, Tudehope has accepted that he introduced the men, and he would not have been surprised that O’Hara would be happy to support their factional work financially. But like O’Hara, a prohibited political donor because of his involvement in the liquor industry, who appeared before the commission last week, Tudehope has disputed whether payments to the Reformers would count as political donations. He says: If you think that I would expose a friend of mine to that level of scrutiny that he was exposed to, 83 years of age with stage … four cancer, do you think that I would have done that in circumstances where I knew that he woul.