Following extensive media coverage and significant financial expenditures, coupled with the release of two convicted criminals and numerous appeals lodged, the royal commission has now delivered its conclusive findings. So, what precisely transpired in the Nicola Gobbo scandal? What revelations have emerged since her exposure? February 7, — am. Normal text size. Larger text size. Very large text size. Victoria Police told barrister Nicola Gobbo they would pay for her to flee overseas, including to a country without extradition treaties with Australia, so she could avoid criminal investigation or prosecution into her work as a police informer March Represents one of Victoria's biggest fraudsters. Gobbo represents Frank De Stefano during his Supreme Court trial after the Geelong accountant is charged with stealing $ million 20 Apr |. Bookmark. It's a story of gang murders, drug turf wars, illicit sex and betrayal that could have come straight from the pages of a trashy crime thriller. But the Missing: reviews Several photographs and a video of Nicola Gobbo’s children were posted on a social media site by an overseas-based childcare centre, which Herald Sun. PART 1: Nicola Gobbo couldn’t be in court today, the judge was told. She was delighted, radiant and a bit tired, the story went, after giving birth to a girl. The County Court hears excuses every day. For once, here was a no-show that everyone could celebrate. Yet there was more to the tale. There always was with [HOST]g: reviews By REMY VARGA. AM July 23, Comments. Victoria Police used taxpayer money to ply Nicola Gobbo with overseas trips, concert tickets, cigarettes and an allowance before the criminal barrister turned supergrass sued them for almost $3 million 1m 13s. The ABC Podcast Trace: The Informer is available now. [HOST] After the first season of the ABC's true-crime podcast Trace, which investigated the unsolved murder of Melbourne woman Maria James, reporter Rachael Brown was looking around
Lawyer X: the extraordinary story laid out before royal commission
Victoria. Crime. Nicola Gobbo breaks silence in interview from secret overseas location. The lawyer who snitched on her gangland clients has revealed, from a Very large text size. The revelation in March that a former gangland barrister called Nicola Gobbo was also a police informer was a legal scandal like no other – one that threatened the foundations of the state's criminal justice system and some of Victoria Police's most celebrated convictions
Tony Mokbel conviction quashed as fallout from Lawyer X …
The Lawyer X inquiry’s final report has found that former barrister Nicola Gobbo’s work with Victoria Police was “inexcusable” and the community and courts are entitled to their concerns that she has undermined the law and the administration of justice Nicola Gobbo, AKA Lawyer X, provided information to police about her client Tony Mokbel, who has had a drug conviction quashed on appeal. Missing: reviews Nicola Gobbo, AKA Lawyer X, provided information to police about her client Tony Mokbel, who has had a drug conviction quashed on appeal. Photograph: ABC. Lawyer X. This article is more than 3 Missing: reviews Fri EDT. The lawyer at the centre of a police informant scandal in Victoria was repeatedly courted and rejected by police before she began her four-year stint as a top informant March Represents one of Victoria's biggest fraudsters. Gobbo represents Frank De Stefano during his Supreme Court trial after the Geelong