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 Underworld boss Carl Williams warned drug kingpin Tony Mokbel that he should not trust his lawyer-turned-supergrass barrister Nicola Gobbo. Mokbel, one of the most prominent and recognisable Informer can now be identified as Nicola Gobbo. Gobbo is charged with drug possession. Police seize kilograms of amphetamine Nicola Gobbo, 46, was unmasked as Lawyer X, or Informer , last month. At the first hearings of the Victorian royal commission into the management of police informants this week, current and Nicola Gobbo, with then-client Tony Mokbel, outside a court in Credit: Nine News “This includes stronger oversight of police activities in relation to their use of human sources, as well News. Law Order. Lawyer X: Nicola Gobbo insiders fear for their safety if evidence made public. The first criminal Nicola Gobbo informed on was Missing: brisbane
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Jeff Pope, now the deputy electoral commissioner at the Australian Electoral Commission, was Ms Gobbo’s police handler when she was registered as an informer in The head of the royal commission, Margaret McMurdo, welcomed the lifting of the suppression order. "The commission is now better placed to ascertain the full extent of Nicola Gobbo's conduct as a For over 15 years, the Victoria police used criminal barrister Nicola Gobbo as an informant against her own clients in what has become known as the Lawyer X scandal. The scandal has been Criminal barrister-turned informer Nicola Gobbo tells the Lawyer X royal commission there was no "concrete" way out of her "insane" period as an informer, during her fourth day of evidence before Gobbo played double agent in risky underworld game with Mokbel. In the days before kingpin Tony Mokbel fled to Greece mid-trial, his lawyer Nicola Gobbo told police to keep a close eye on him
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The choice for Victoria Police now is whether what runs down is dirty water or something clearer and cleaner. Nicola Gobbo ceased practising (rightfully so) and was struck off the bar roll for her Wife-killer uses Gobbo revelations to claim he was victim of injustice. A convicted wife-killer is trying to use the revelation that Nicola Gobbo worked as a police informer to demand a fresh