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Nats get robbed

April 5th, 2010 at 4:30 pm by David Farrar

The Press reports:

A former National Party treasurer has been sentenced to 100 hours community service after taking more than $4600 in party funds.

Michael John Gibbs, 36, the treasurer of the party’s Wigram branch between September and December 2008, pleaded guilty in the Christchurch District Court on Thursday to the theft of $4636.

Judge Stephen Erber sentenced Gibbs to 100 hours community service.

I don’t know Gibbs, but it almost looks like he became Treasurer to steal money, as he only served for three months – his offending must have started at once.

The police summary of facts said Gibbs set up an internet banking account and was able to transfer money from the party’s bank account without following procedures that required withdrawal slips to be signed by two members of the Wigram branch.

This makes me wonder how this happened. If two signatures are needed, then the internet banking access should have been set up requiring two users to authorise.

By December 2008, he had completed 12 internet bank transactions totalling $4636.

In February last year, a new treasurer found there was only 10 cents left in the party’s Wigram account.

Pretty damn stupid, as obvious he would be found out.

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25 Responses to “Nats get robbed”

  1. Rex Widerstrom (4,965) Says:
    April 5th, 2010 at 5:00 pm

    Meanwhile, I presume the wholesale theft of wine from the Press Gallery Christmas Party still remains an abiding mystery unable to be solved by a compliant sorry, dedicated, police force? Just like Brash’s emails etc etc.

    They’re world leaders in finding what their masters want to be found – even if it wasn’t there in the first place – while finding the simplest of mysteries impossible to solve if to do so would embarrass those same masters. Of course such information is a handy bargaining chip when demanding ever-increasing powers over the rest of us.

    Silly Mr Gibbs forgot the golden rule – it’s okay to break the law if you’re working for a political party and it’s against someone else, just don’t rob the party itself!

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  2. starboard (2,447) Says:
    April 5th, 2010 at 5:03 pm

    100 hours community service = wet bus ticket. Not a bad hourly rate though @ $46

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  3. Put it away (2,887) Says:
    April 5th, 2010 at 5:47 pm

    This is so stupid it makes me wonder if this guy is an Alliance retard going undercover.

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  4. starboard (2,447) Says:
    April 5th, 2010 at 6:22 pm

    beats robbin a pharmacy with a shotgun though eh Phil Ure

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  5. philu (13,393) Says:
    April 5th, 2010 at 7:10 pm

    i wouldn’t know..i’ve never used/fired a shotgun/pointed a shotgun at anyone/anything….ever..eh..?

    should the headline be:..’nats rob the poorest’..?

    tax cuts kick in..so do a.c.c increases..

    ..nett loss..for the mug-punters..eh..?

    ..(‘snicker snicker ‘go the nattys..

    ..(as they break into a rousing chorus of”..the working class can kiss my arse..!”..)

    phil(whoar.co.nz)

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  6. Inventory2 (8,809) Says:
    April 5th, 2010 at 7:14 pm

    So what did you use then Phil, to get done for aggravated robbery? Must have been some sort of weapon to earn you a good, long lag ..eh..?

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  7. philu (13,393) Says:
    April 5th, 2010 at 7:44 pm

    i should have used a pen..eh..?

    much bigger earn..and no penalty..usually..

    btw..this was over 30 yrs ago..

    d’yareckon i’m out of the recidivist loop yet..?

    phill(whoar.co.nz)

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  8. toad (3,549) Says:
    April 5th, 2010 at 8:02 pm

    Judge Stephen Erber sentenced Gibbs to 100 hours community service.

    Does letterboxing leaflets for the National Party count as community service? Maybe that’s why I get so much Natcrap in my letterbox.

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  9. Repton (769) Says:
    April 5th, 2010 at 8:03 pm

    100 hours community service = wet bus ticket. Not a bad hourly rate though @ $46

    I expect he had to pay it back …

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  10. George Patton (300) Says:
    April 5th, 2010 at 8:08 pm

    Toad, nah, but he might get a nice little diversion by DJing in a student quad somewhere.

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  11. kiwiteen (9) Says:
    April 5th, 2010 at 8:40 pm

    He must have put a lot of effort in to get to be Treasurer. He didn’t gain much.

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  12. MIKMS (162) Says:
    April 5th, 2010 at 8:42 pm

    interesting no one noticed until he left…

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  13. burt (5,933) Says:
    April 5th, 2010 at 8:50 pm

    MIKMS

    I think he threatened to go work for an independent.

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  14. RKBee (1,344) Says:
    April 5th, 2010 at 9:02 pm

    Wigram.. National would have lost their money regardless.

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  15. starboard (2,447) Says:
    April 5th, 2010 at 9:20 pm

    dont tryin downplay it Ure..you’re an armed robber…you commited armed robbery of a pharmacy..hmm I wonder how the victims are…I wonder if they have managed to put their lifes back together…

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  16. burt (5,933) Says:
    April 5th, 2010 at 11:12 pm

    starboard

    Take it offline, he has served his time. He’s still a self confessed beneficiary lifestyler which I think sucks, but the past is the past, we give him enough money to not need to rob pharmacies now and all is sweet.

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  17. William Fussey (45) Says:
    April 5th, 2010 at 11:18 pm

    I knew Mike Gibbs quite well when I lived in Christchurch. When I first learnt of the theft a year and a bit ago I was disgusted. If you want to know more about Mike DPF, I can tell you sometime. There’s quite a bit worth mentioning.

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  18. Rex Widerstrom (4,965) Says:
    April 5th, 2010 at 11:48 pm

    burt: Well said. Congratulations.

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  19. starboard (2,447) Says:
    April 6th, 2010 at 8:28 am

    burt (4153) Says:

    April 5th, 2010 at 11:12 pm

    Rex Widerstrom (2562) Says:

    April 5th, 2010 at 11:48 pm

    Pffftt….

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  20. Tauhei Notts (1,260) Says:
    April 6th, 2010 at 8:37 am

    This is a serious problem with internal controls with sporting clubs and others that use internet banking.
    The old control of at least two signatures no longer exists.
    At my golf club I have insisted that the president spend five minutes each week perusing the Club’s bank account records, EVERY Monday, that is, once a week, to ensure that there is nothing weird, odd or unusual going on.
    That is all it takes, and had that happened at the Wigram outfit, the naughtiness would have been brought to light much earlier.
    Our club moved away from cheques to direct debits because the time spent in attending to creditors’ payments was just too damned long. The computer banking really does make it all a piece of piss. But that oversight is totally necessary.

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  21. Murray (8,832) Says:
    April 6th, 2010 at 10:40 am

    $4,600? Thats what 12 boxes of wine? Oh sorry you said National, not Labour party stafers.

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  22. GPT1 (1,952) Says:
    April 6th, 2010 at 11:21 am

    I hate to be fair to him but he was Treasurer for over a year. Although what a complete bastard. I doubt we will ever know what he took. To put it in context Wigram is a very poor electorate. He took about 20% of an election fund. Sadly it is the price volunteer organisations can pay – when someone puts their hand up to do a job they are usually welcomed (as was Gibbs). Bad bad man.

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  23. Tookinator (167) Says:
    April 6th, 2010 at 12:48 pm

    I see on his Facebook page he is still friends with 18 National MP’s (and DPF) none of the MP’s seem to have de-friended him yet…

    [DPF: Heh had not realised that]

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  24. GPT1 (1,952) Says:
    April 7th, 2010 at 8:00 pm

    He is a facebook stalker from way back.

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  25. CJD (334) Says:
    April 8th, 2010 at 1:03 pm

    Bugger! When I was electorate chair in Mana I spent most of my time putting money INTO the account!

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