Some unknown person was a ‘fundraiser’ who arranged for Fay Richwhite to splash a little of their millions the National parties way

Two cheques turned up in the mail for amounts totalling X at the lawyers office .

But not David Henry so its all right then

National then got an ‘anonymous’ donation of of X-Y.

hardly any wrongdoing by national. How much were the ‘expenses’.

$5000 ? Well lawyers do charge a lot Maybe it was more , much more, 10% say

But taking expenses out of a trust fund account?

You loose all credibility as a rational thinking person when you try to standup for a slimeball like Peters. It merely proves that you have neither intellect nor self-respect.

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters asked in Parliament yesterday whether former National Party president Geoff Thompson used money donated to the party in 1996 to get his company Waipuna International out of financial trouble.

The Serious Fraud Office is investigating alleged misuse of donations to the party during that time.

It is believed a $250,000 donation from bankers Fay Richwhite, put into a trust account run by Mr Thompson’s law firm, Macalister Mazengarb, is at the centre of the investigation.

“Fay Richwhite paid a cheque to Geoffrey Thompson and he banked it. The real issue is, where is the audit trail?” said Mr Peters.

“Precisely into which account of Macalister Mazengarb went this cheque?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=2042674.

So it appears some money went missing!!

This comment from Boag was illuminating

National Party president Michelle Boag said earlier that the party had supplied a complete paper trail on the transactions.

Part of the money had been used to meet expenses, which were all receipted.

The balance of the donation was then paid as a single cheque to the party’s account.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=2097046

Meet expenses!! yeah right

Luckily by the time the SFO turned up , the were “all receipted”

So many expenses just to bank two cheques and then combine them as one cheque so as to hide the donors name

What will they find this time? For how long do you think your favorite “lying wanker” will go down?

Care to venture an opinion?

“National’s Auckland regional conference is underway this weekend with the embarrassed party awkwardly trying to put a bitter internal row behind it, and desperate to find anything to distract the media from the Serious Fraud Office investigation into the party’s funds.

The news that the SFO is investigating the party’s finances – specifically the mysterious amounts donated by merchant bankers Fay Richwhite in 1996 – had recently prompted the party to call for SFO head David Bradshaw’s resignation after he informed the Prime Minister’s office that he was investigating National”

Calling for the head of the SFO to be sacked because he launched an investigation.!!

“The party’s president Michelle Boag – former head of public relations at Fay Richwhite – had threatened former president John Slater with expulsion, if it was found that he was the source of the leak about the party’s 1996 funding to the SFO.”

Intimidating a potential witness!! Then again the Slaters, such a charming lot