August 10th, 2008 at 8:06 am by David Farrar
The Herald on Sunday reports that two investigators from the Serious Fraud Office met Sir Robert Jones during the week, as part of their work in determining whether to launch a full formal investigation.
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Spencer Trust,
Winston First
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August 10th, 2008 at 8:15 am
This is Information that is hard to ignore.
Might be too complicated for a real result.
Just underscores the frailty of WP, in the future workings of any Government.
Very sad really. That someone who has always stood so high on the Moral High Ground, and is then discovered to be lacking in
a straightforward approach to perfectly reasonable questions.
Vote:August 10th, 2008 at 9:00 am
gee..dpf..
..is that the only sunday columnist you are going to link to..?
..it’s wall-to-wall natty-woes today..
..i’ve done a round-up/commented on the commenters..
..it’s all good stuff..
..but this one is the funniest..
(..young nats:..’as cool as a manilow-bender’..)
(heh..!..)
http://whoar.co.nz/2008/what-are-young-nats-really-likean-ex-young-natty-spills-his-guts-on-this-decidedly-strangeweird-political-animal/
..enjoy..!
(and..um..!..hasn’t it been a ‘good week’..and a ‘long’ one..eh..?..)
..phil(whoar.co.nz
[DPF: Phil - I'll be nice and give you a warning, but you demanding what I cover is off topic. Plus it is puerile as I was already working on three more stories in the Sunday newspapers. If people think I have missed a significant story, they should e-mail me the link]
Vote:August 10th, 2008 at 9:52 am
my mate has also furnished the SFO with some info – on raw prawns…….
Vote:August 10th, 2008 at 9:59 am
We are very cheerful, as the walls are starting to close in on the prospects of this episode of Government.
The more brackets, and points, and eh?s kind of alludes to a huge stress condition.
Power is so lovely, but the prospect of it surging away must be very hard to swallow!
Vote:August 10th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Any minute now Doc Sullen will be calling Jones a rich prick.
Then we get to see Jones give the smack in the mouth hes been hanging out for for the last nine years.
Sweet.
Vote:August 10th, 2008 at 11:03 am
…After all this time, those raw prawns are gonna stink to high heaven.
Vote:August 10th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Glutaemus Maximus says:
Some of it is quite complex, yes. I suspect bustedblonde’s mate’s info will be as tangled as the tentacles at an octopus orgy, because they made some effort to cover that particular deal.
But Bob’s complaint – the diversion of money from the intended recipient to another party, and the disbursement of that money by the other party – is, by SFO standards, fairly straightforward.
The primary concern at this stage is to get the SFO rolling, as last I heard they were making the somewhat extraordinary assertion that they wouldn’t investigate till there was sufficient evidence. I must call my local “P” dealer and inform him that unless he happens to drop a sack of the stuff in the street and it blows across the local playground, law enforcement won’t worry because they no longer investigate suspicious activity and wait for members of the public to do the detective work for them.
Vote:August 10th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Message from Rex’s local “P” dealer: you’d be safest to leave me out of this sunshine.
Vote:August 10th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
“..[DPF: Phil – I’ll be nice and give you a warning, but you demanding what I cover is off topic..”
when you normally link to/laud almost everything those commenters do..
..but don’t this week..when they focus on your ‘bad week’..
..i kinda think that is on-topic..
..eh..?
(..and i wasn’t ‘demanding’ you cover them..
..i was noting that you had not covered them..
..there is a difference..)
phil(whoar.co.nz)
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