Justice Elizabeth Fullerton presided over the criminal trial of two former Labor ministers, Ian Macdonald and Eddie Obeid, and Obeids son Moses. Credit:
Earlier this week Justice Fullerton found the former mining ministers Macdonald, 72, and Eddie Obeid, 77, and Obeids son Moses, 52, were guilty over their roles in the crooked tender.
During the year-long trial, the Crown alleged that between September 2007 and January 2009, Macdonald provided the Obeids with inside information that gave them the running on who would win a coal exploration over their property Cherrydale Park near Mount Penny in the Bylong Valley.
Justice Fullerton found Macdonald had knowingly breached his ministerial obligations for the improper purpose of advancing the financial interests of the Obeids.
The three men participated in the hearing remotely. Macdonald was in his Blue Mountains home and Moses Obeid was at his barristers chambers before returning to the house he has been renting in Paddington.
Eddie Obeid watched proceedings from a large armchair in his Hunters Hill home.
Passy, the family home, was sold for $11.5 million last October, with the Obeids then taking a year-long lease.
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Despite claims they are an unacceptable flight risk, convicted former Labor ministers Ian Macdonald and Eddie Obeid, and Obeid’s son Moses, have been granted bail.
