Arthur Sinodinos insists he has ''no recollection'' of more than $70,000 in donations to the NSW Liberals by his former firm Australian Water Holdings - despite being honorary party treasurer and an AWH director at the time.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/arthur-sinodinos-memory-le...

Fancy such a young man struck down with dementia like symptons in the prime of his life.  Such a waste.

Vic wrote on Apr 3^rd, 2014 at 8:18am:

HE eldest son of crooked ex-MP Eddie Obeid admits he might have told a “white lie’’ to the NSW corruption watchdog. 
 
But his family “did not have investor relations’’ with infrastructure company Australian Water Holdings (AWH), he says.

Moses Obeid gave evidence at the Independent Commission against Corruption today as it investigates whether AWH corruptly billed the state-owned Sydney Water for limousine rides, airfares and luxury hotel stays.

It has also been alleged the Obeid family had a hidden stake in the company and that Mr Obeid lobbied NSW ministers and even former premier Kristina Keneally about its operations.

“My family does not own shares in Australian Water and we never have,’’ Moses Obeid told the commission.

“I can put that to you in Bill Clinton fashion: we did not have investor relations in that company.’’

There was a slight pause, before counsel assisting Geoffrey Watson SC asked pointedly: “Was Bill Clinton telling the truth?’’

Mr Watson has indicated he will accuse Moses Obeid of misleading the commission during an interview with ICAC investigators in 2013, when he claimed he knew “nothing, really’’ about Australian Water Holdings.

He also said his knowledge of a related company, Australian Water Pty Ltd, was limited to what he’d seen in the news.

“If it was untrue, Mr Watson, it was a white lie,’’ said Moses Obeid, whose father Eddie Obeid, a former Labor minister, has been found by a previous ICAC hearing to have engaged in corrupt conduct.

Yet Moses Obeid has admitted to signing a heads of agreement document in 2010 that Mr Watson has described as an agreement to buy $3 million worth of shares from former AWH chief Nick Di Girolamo.

Moses Obeid said he believed he was signing off on a simple loan to a family friend.

“I didn’t go through this document chapter and verse,’’ he said, adding that he was “preoccupied’’ with legal disputes when he signed.

“I might have been busting to go to the toilet or something,’’ he joked.

Mr Watson said if that was true, he had skipped a crucial heading.

“They’re three words, the longest of which is six letters,’’ Mr Watson said.

Bam wrote on Apr 3^rd, 2014 at 8:36am:



Yes - memory loss was an issue at the AWB inquiry as well.  Forget who forgot - maybe a booted out ex Coalition PM?

If he genuinely has no recollection of these events, he can't have been a very good party treasurer.

they must think we all came down with yesterdays shower....

if these people are not made to speak the truth.. whats the point of them turning up.??..

we can all claim memory loss...the fact that someone was assistant Treasurer

who the hell does he think he is kidding.. I am over these lying toads..

he didnt forget how much he stood to make though did he....

Amnesia is the first recourse of a guilty mind.

cods wrote on Apr 3^rd, 2014 at 4:37pm:


Million, not billion.

mantra wrote on Apr 3^rd, 2014 at 9:12am:


Not very bright is he?
And yet Abbott made him Assistant Treasurer...

Was that so Joe coild say at some time "No, I don't remember that, Arthur must have forgotten to tell me."???