Overview
- This week the Independent Commission Against Corruption heard that a senior political staffer showed a covert video to Cassandra Lawry and said it could be used to “get rid of” NSW building commissioner David Chandler.
- Investigators have shifted focus to fresh allegations that developer Jean Nassif paid as much as $2 million to Liberal operatives including Christian Ellis, Jeremy Greenwood and Charles Perrottet in efforts to remove or neutralise critics.
- ICAC heard that a salacious ‘dirt sheet’ targeting former minister David Elliott was prepared by staffer Dylan Whitelaw at the instruction of lobbyist Jeremy Greenwood and that Elliott has denied wrongdoing while weighing legal action.
- The inquiry is also examining claims of illegal donations arranged through bogus contracts with Catholic Schools NSW and of branch‑stacking to boost the Reformers faction, and reporting says Nassif is at large in Lebanon.
- Hearings are ongoing with multiple ministers, staffers and lobbyists giving evidence, no formal findings or criminal charges have been announced yet, and further witness testimony could lead to referrals or political consequences for the NSW Liberal Party.