Icac lawyer tells Charles Perrottet the key to lying is ‘you have to be really good at remembering it’
What to know about Icac lawyer tells Charles Perrottet the key to lying is ‘you have to be really good at remembering it’
A brother of former New South Wales premier Dominic Perrottet has told Icac he would lie to a property developer about delivering political outcomes “to keep him on side”, but Charles Perrottet has denied lying to the state’s anti-corruption watchdog.
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What happened
A brother of former New South Wales premier Dominic Perrottet has told Icac he would lie to a property developer about delivering political outcomes “to keep him on side”, but Charles Perrottet has denied lying to the state’s anti-corruption watchdog.
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