Lawyer facing jail over $6 million fraud A lawyer who defrauded millions from elderly clients and used the money to buy a luxury home is facing jail.
Crime by Steve Zemek 17th Dec 2020 6:40 PM A disgraced lawyer who funnelled millions of dollars from the estates of deceased elderly clients and splurged on a luxury eastern suburbs home is set to be sent to jail, a court has heard. Mark Leo O Brien, 64, and his wife Therese O Brien, 63, hung their heads as the Downing Centre District Court on Thursday heard details of how they misappropriated more than $6.1 million from his Edgecliff-based law firm over a three-year period.
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Sydney swim teacher Kyle Daniels has been found not-guilty on five out of 26 counts of sexually assaulting young girls at the Mosman Swim Centre.
The jury of eight men and four women returned not guilty verdicts to the five counts on Thursday afternoon.
The jury will continue their deliberation on the remaining charges.
Daniels was found not guilty on two counts of having sexual intercourse with a child under the age of 10, one count of committing an act of indecency and two counts of having sex with a child under the age of 10.
Sydney swim teacher Kyle James Henk Daniels (pictured) has been found not-guilty on five out of 26 counts of sexually assaulting young girls at the Mosman Swim Centre
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Crime by Heath Parkes-Hupton 15th Dec 2020 9:02 AM A once high-ranking NAB employee and the woman who allegedly funnelled millions of dollars in kickbacks into her accounts referred to each other as bestie and sister from another mother . Court documents allege that Rosemary Rogers, the Chief of Staff to the NAB CEO, formed an ongoing agreement with Helen Rosamond to favour her events company the Human Group with work for the bank. In return Ms Rosamond allegedly organised small gifts for Rogers like a $1,600 hotel room at Melbourne s Crown Casino in 2013. A year later this grew into an eight-person, $620,000 US holiday for Rogers family, court documents allege.